Philosophy, Science, and History

Abstract

1. Editor's Introduction Part One to the History and of * Introduction to Approaches to the History and of Science *Reason in Science, George Santayana. *The Function of General Laws in History, Carl Hempel. *The Three Tasks of Epistemology, Hans Reichenbach. *What are Scientific Revolutions? Thomas Kuhn. *Falsification and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes, Imre Lakatos. *The Relations between the History and the of Science, Thomas Kuhn. *The History of Science, Thomas Kuhn. *Scientific Research under a Historical Microscope, Martin Rudwick. *The Polity of Science, Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer. Part Two Debates in History and of A. in Scientific * Introduction to Hypotheses in Scientific Discovery *Of Inductions Improperly So Called, John Stuart Mill. *Mr. Mill's Logic, William Whewell. *Physical Theory and Experiment, Pierre Duhem. *Is there a Logic of Scientific Discovery? Norwood Russell Hanson. B. in Natural * Introduction to Force in Natural Philosophy * Principles of (selections), Rene Descartes. *Critical Thoughts on the General Part of the Principles of Descartes, Gottfried Leibniz. * On the Gravity and Equilibrium of Fluids (slightly abridged), Isaac Newton. *On the Divisibility and Subtlety of Matter, Emilie du Chatelet. *Of the Idea of Necessary Connexion, David Hume. *How is Pure Natural Possible? Immanuel Kant. C. Natural History: and * Introduction to Catastrophism and Uniformitarianism *Initial Discourse, George-Louis de Buffon. *Preliminary Observations to the Essay on the Theory of the Earth, Georges Cuvier. *Prejudices relating to the Theory of the Earth, John Playfair. *On the Geological Succession of Organic Beings, Charles Darwin. *Of the Doctrine of Catastrophes and the Doctrine of Uniformity, William Whewell.