A Historical Introduction to the Philosophy of Science

Absolute Space According achieved analogy analysis arguments Aristotelian Aristotle Aristotle's atoms axiom system Berkeley Bode's Law bodies Cambridge Campbell Carl Hempel causal causal relations cause Chicago claim colours concepts confirmation correlations Descartes discovery Duhem Duns Scotus Émile Meyerson empirical laws Ernest Nagel example experience experimental laws fact Feigl Feyerabend formulated Francis Bacon Galileo geometry Grosseteste Hempel Herschel history of science Hume hypothesis Ibid ideal ideas inductive insisted instance interpretation Kant Kepler knowledge Kuhn Lakatos Leibniz Logic Mach maintained mathematical mechanics metaphysical Method of Difference Mill modus tollens motion nature necessary truths Newton Newtonian observed Ockham Oxford paradigm phenomena Phil philosophy of science physical planets Poincaré Popper position predicates premisses procedure Pythagorean research programme Robert Grosseteste Roger Bacon scientific explanation scientific inquiry scientific laws scientific method scientific progress scientific theories scientist sequence specify statements Studies theorems theory of scientific tion trans University Press Whewell York