Subsections
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- Introduction: Epistemological roots of scientific knowledge.
- Theories of scientific knowledge: Rationalism and empiricism, foundational, coherentism, correspondence.
- Naturalised epistemology and evolutionary epistemology.
- Scientific objectivity:
- Theory-Ladenness and Incommensurability,
- Standpoint Theory, Contextual Empiricism and Trust in Science,
- Objectivity as Freedom from Personal Biases: Measurement and
Quantification, inductive and statistical inference.
- Is Science progressive? Aspect of scientific progress, theories of scientific progress-realism and instrumentalism, empirical success and problem solving, explanatory power, unification and simplicity, truth and information.
- Aronson, J.L., Harré, R. and Way, E.C., Realism Rescued: How Scientific Progress is Possible, London: Duckworth, 1994.
- Callebaut, W. and Pinxten, R. (eds.), Evolutionary Epistemology, Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1987.
- Chisholm, Roderick, Theory of Knowledge, 2nd edition. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hal, 1977.
- Dilworth, C., Scientific Progress: A Study Concerning the Nature of the Relation Between Successive Scientific Theories, Dordrecht: Reidel, 1981.
- Kuhn, T.S., The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962. 2nd enlarged ed, 1970.
- Lacey, H., Is Science Value-Free?, London: Routledge, 1999.
- Niiniluoto, I., Scientific Progress, Synthese, 1980, 45: 427–464.
- 1984, Is Science Progressive?, Dordrecht: D. Reide
- Reichenbach, H., On Probability and Induction, Philosophy of Science, 1938. 5: 21–4
- Salmon, Wesley, The Foundations of Scientific Inference, University of Pittsburg Press,(1967).
- 1984, Scientific Explanation and the Causal Structure of the World.
- 1990, Four Decades of Scientific Explanation, (1990).
- 1998, Causality and Explanation, (1998)
