Acknowledgments ................................................ xi
Contributors ................................................. xiii
1 Introduction: New Directions in Philosophy of Science ........ 1
Paul Humphreys
PART I OVERVIEWS
2 Advertisement for the Philosophy of the Computational
Sciences .................................................... 15
Oron Shagrir
3 Philosophy of the Social Sciences: Naturalism and
Anti-naturalism in the Philosophy of Social Science ......... 43
Francesco Guala
4 Philosophy of Biology ....................................... 65
Ben Fraser and Kim Sterelny
5 Philosophy of the Psychological and Cognitive Sciences ...... 92
Mark Sprevak
6 Philosophy of the Physical Sciences ........................ 115
Carl Hoefer and Chris Smeenk
7 Having Science in View: General Philosophy of Science and
Its Significance ........................................... 137
Stathis Psillos
PART II TRADITIONAL TOPICS
8 Causation in Science ....................................... 163
James Woodward
9 Confirmation and Induction .................................
Jan Sprenger
10 Determinism and Indeterminism .............................. 210
Charlotte Werndl
11 Epistemology and Philosophy of Science ..................... 233
Otávio Bueno
12 Ethics in Science .......................................... 252
David B. Resnik
13 Experiment ................................................. 274
Uljana Feest and Friedrich Steinle
14 Game Theory ................................................ 296
Cristina Bicchieri and Giacomo Sillari
15 Instrumentalism: Global, Local, and Scientific .............. 318
P. Kyle Stanford
16 Laws of Nature ............................................. 337
John T. Roberts
17 Metaphysics in Science ..................................... 356
Richard Healey
18 Models and Theories ........................................ 378
Margaret Morrison
19 Natural Kinds .............................................. 397
Muhammad Ali Khalidi
20 Probability ................................................ 417
Antony Eagle
21 Representation in Science .................................. 440
Mauricio Suárez
22 Reduction .................................................. 460
Andreas Hüttemann and Alan C. Love
23 Science and Non-Science .................................... 485
Sven Ove Hansson
24 Scientific Concepts ........................................ 506
Hyundeuk Cheon and Edouard Machery
25 Scientific Explanation ..................................... 524
Bradford Skow
26 Scientific Progress ........................................ 544
Alexander Bird
27 Scientific Realism ......................................... 564
Timothy D. Lyons
28 Scientific Theories ........................................ 585
Hans Halvorson
29 Values in Science .......................................... 609
Heather Douglas
PART III NEW DIRECTIONS
30 After Kuhn ................................................. 633
Philip Kitcher
31 Astronomy and Astrophysics ................................. 652
Sibylle Anderl
32 Challenges to Evolutionary Theory .......................... 671
Denis Walsh
33 Complexity Theory .......................................... 695
Michael Strevens
34 Computer Simulation ........................................ 717
Johannes Lenhard
35 Data ....................................................... 738
Aidan Lyon
36 Emergence .................................................. 759
Paul Humphreys
37 Empiricism and After ....................................... 779
Jim Bogen
38 Mechanisms and Mechanical Philosophy ....................... 796
Stuart Glennan
39 Philosophy and Cosmology ................................... 817
Claus Beisbart
40 Philosophy of Neuroscience ................................. 836
Adina L. Roskies and Carl F. Craver
41 Social Organization of Science ............................. 863
Martin Carrier
42 Spaces ..................................................... 882
Dean Rickles
Index ......................................................... 909
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