The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Science

Routledge Companions

by Martin Curd (Editor), Stathis Psillos (editor)

The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Science is an indispensable reference source and guide to the major themes, debates, problems and topics in philosophy of science. It contains sixty-two specially commissioned entries by a leading team of international contributors. Organized into four parts it








The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Science addresses all of the essential topics that students of philosophy of science need to know - from empiricism, explanation and experiment to causation, observation, prediction and more - and contains many helpful features including chapters on individual sciences (such as biology, chemistry, physics and psychology), further reading and cross-referencing at the end of each chapter.

Expanded and revised throughout, this second edition includes new chapters on Conventionalism, Social Epistemology, Computer Simulation, Thought Experiments, Pseudoscience, Species and Taxonomy, and Cosmology.

Genres: Philosophy, Science

Kindle Edition

First published December 1, 2007

Reviews

[Kageroyami · Rating 3 out of 5]

While is an interesting book by itself, I think the wide range of writers, specialties and different articles could have been arranged better to have more synergy between articles. The articles range from basic subjects like introducing terminology in simple enough language to a lay person, to very specialized essays about the discussions relevant at the moment to an specific field.