ABSTRACT

A clear, original and systematic introduction to philosophy of science which examines the theories of Popper, Lakatos, Kuhn and Feyerabend before proposing a new, temperate rationalist perspective.

chapter 2|25 pages

OBSERVATION, THEORY AND TRUTH

chapter 3|33 pages

POPPER—THE IRRATIONAL RATIONALIST

chapter 4|48 pages

IN SEARCH OF THE METHODOLOGIST’S STONE

chapter 6|23 pages

FEYERABEND, THE PASSIONATE LIBERAL

chapter 7|60 pages

THEORIES ARE INCOMMENSURABLE?

chapter 9|58 pages

SCIENTIFIC METHOD

chapter 11|8 pages

TEMPERATE RATIONALISM