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The Example of Newtonian Mechanics; Theories as Explainers: The Hypothetico-Deductive Model; The Philosophical Significance of Newtonian Mechanics and Theories; Summary; Study Questions; Suggested Readings; 8 Epistemic and Metaphysical Issues About Scientific Theories; Overview; Reduction, Replacement and the Progress of Science; The Problem of Theoretical Terms; Scientific Realism vs. Antirealism; Summary; Study Questions; Suggested Readings; 9 Theory Construction vs. Model Building; Overview 327 $aTheories and ModelsSemantic vs. Syntactic Approaches to Theories and Models; A Case Study: Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection; Models and Theories in Evolutionary Biology; Summary; Study Questions; Suggested Readings; 10 Induction and Probability; Overview; The Problem of Induction; Statistics and Probability to the Rescue?; How Much Can Bayes' Theorem Really Help?; Summary; Study Questions; Suggested Readings; 11 Confirmation, Falsification, Underdetermination; Overview; Epistemological Problems of Hypothesis Testing; Induction as a Pseudo-Problem: Popper's Gambit; Underdetermination 327 $aSummary 330 $a"Any serious student attempting to better understand the nature, methods, and justification of science will value Alex Rosenberg's updated and substantially revised Third Edition of Philosophy of Science: A Contemporary Introduction. Weaving lucid explanations with clear analyses, the volume is as a much-used, thematically oriented introduction to the field. New features of the Third Edition include more coverage of the history of the philosophy of science, more fully developed material on the metaphysics of causal and physical necessity, more background on the contrast between empiricism and rationalism in science, and new material on the structure of theoretical science (with expanded coverage of Newtonian and Darwinian theories and models) and the realism/antirealism controversy. Rosenberg also divides the Third Edition into fourteen chapters, aligning each chapter with a week in a standard semester-long course. Updated Discussion Questions, Glossary, Bibliography and Suggested Readings lists at the end of each chapter will make the Third Edition indispensable, either as a comprehensive stand-alone text or alongside the many wide ranging collections of articles and book excerpts currently available"--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aRoutledge contemporary introductions to philosophy. 606 $aScience$xPhilosophy 606 $aScience$xMethodology 615 0$aScience$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aScience$xMethodology. 676 $a501 686 $aPHI000000$aSCI075000$2bisacsh 700 $aRosenberg$b Alexander$f1946-$045160 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910815395503321 996 $aPhilosophy of science$9980459 997 $aUNINA