An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science

This book is based mainly on lectures given at Stanford University during

the last eleven years. So the book is a distillation of lectures, but not only of lectures. It also

bears the influence of innumerable comments, questions, and papers by students over that time,

together with remarks made by col- leagues and friends.

The book is written primarily for students, but it is intended to be ac- cessible to a fairly wide

audience. I assume no background knowledge in philosophy at all in the reader. My primary aim is to

introduce some of the main themes in the philosophy of science, while simultaneously telling an

accessible and interesting story about how the field has developed in the last one hundred years or

so. In telling this story I have been led to describe the connections between philosophy and other

disciplines, and the chang- ing intellectual climate in which theories of science have been

offered, in more detail than many introductory books do. I have also tried, in some places, to

capture some of the atmosphere of the debates, and the person-

alities of the protagonists.

جهت استعلام قيمت و سفارش چاپ اين محصول لطفا با انتشارات گنج حضور تماس حاصل فرماييد