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‎A Historical Introduction to the Philosophy of Science (Third Edition revised and enlarged, 1993)‎

‎Oxford University Press Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1993 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback, editor's white wrappers, illustrated by a colour illustration (Tycho Brahe) In-8 1 vol. - 331 pages‎

‎few text-figures 3rd edition revised and enlarged, 1993 Contents, Chapitres : Prefaces, Contents, viii, Text, 323 pages - Introduction - Aristotle's philosophy of science - The Pythagorean orientation - The ideal of deductive systematization - Atomism and the concept of underlying mechanism - Affirmation and development of Aristotle's method in the Medieval period - The debate over saving the appearances - The Seventeenth-Century attack on Aristotelian philosophy (Galileo - Francis Bacon - Descartes) - Newton's axiomatic method - Analyses of the implications of the new science for a theory of scientific method (The cognitive status of scientific laws - Theories of scientific procedure - Structure of scientific theories) - Inductivism versus the hypothetico-deductive view of science - Mathematical positivism and conventionalism - Logical reconstructionist philosophy of science - Orthodoxy under attack - Theories of scientific progress - Explanation, causation and unification - Confirmation and evidential support - The justification of evaluative standards - The debate over scientific realism - Descriptive philosophies of science - Bibliography and index wrappers near fine, lightly yellowing with a small spot on the top of the bottom part, inside is clean, no markings, paper very lightly yellowing, a very good copy‎