دانلود کتاب Science Meets Philosophy: What Makes Science Divided but Still Significant

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Contents
Preface
1 A king’s art
1.0 The line of argument in this chapter
1.1 How to study science
1.1.1 An uneasy relationship
1.1.2 What is the disagreement about?
1.2 Science meets philosophy
1.2.1 Four traditions and three positions
1.2.2 The methodological approach in this book
2 Antiquity and the origin of the divides in philosophy of science
2.0 The line of argument in the chapter
2.1 Science before science: the Plato/Aristotle controversy
2.1.1 The nature of knowledge
2.1.2 Plato on knowledge and truth
2.1.3 Aristotle and the order of things
2.2 The emergence of modern logic
2.2.1 Critique of Plato’s and Aristotle’s methodologies
2.2.2 After antiquity: science and religion
2.2.3 The language of science
3 The realist track towards logical empiricism: the problem of conceptualising reality
3.0 The line of argument in this chapter
3.1 Empiricism
3.1.1 Phenomenalism
3.1.2 All science is science of man
3.1.3 Positivism
3.2 Logical empiricism
3.2.1 The non-existent King of France
3.2.2 The Vienna Circle
3.2.3 Discovering truth by observation and logic
3.3 Post-positivism
3.3.1 The logic of scientific discovery
3.3.2 Towards critical rationalism
3.3.3 The practical turn
4 The idealist track towards phenomenology: the problem of objectivity of thinking
4.0 The line of argument in this chapter
4.1 Constructivism: thinking at the centre of everything
4.1.1 A mind-dependent reality
4.1.2 Kant’s Copernican revolution
4.1.3 Synthetic a priori knowledge
4.2 Science in the post-Kantian world
4.2.1 The parting of ways: rationalism versus humanism
4.2.2 Existentialism
4.2.3 Explaining and understanding
4.3 Phenomenology
4.3.1 Striving towards the infinite horizon
4.3.2 Fundamental ontology
4.3.3 Communicative rationality
5 The scepticism track towards the sociology of science: the problem with the concept of knowing
5.0 The line of argument in the chapter
5.1 The practical turn
5.1.1 Beyond realism and idealism
5.1.2 Scepticism, rationalism, and evolution
5.1.3 The knowledge society: who killed the parrot?
5.2 Inside the whale
5.2.1 The historical embeddedness of thought
5.2.2 The critical theory tradition: against epistemology
5.2.3 Post-structuralism: the social construction of thought
5.3 Sociology of science
5.3.1 Pragmatism
5.3.2 A naked emperor: science as a social practice
5.3.3 Incommensurable paradigms?
6 Still a role for philosophy?
6.0 The line of argument in this chapter
6.1 A view from the moon
6.1.1 Scientific pluralism
6.1.2 Science in a post-metaphysical society
6.2 Sustainable scientific knowledge
6.2.1 Pending questions in the philosophy of science
6.2.2 To reach out into the unknown
SmP References
Index