The Nature and Function of Scientific Theories: Essays in Contemporary Science and Philosophy

University of Pittsburgh Press (1970)
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The six essays in this volume discuss philosophical thought on scientific theory including: a call for a realist, rather than instrumentalist interpretation of science; a critique of one of the core ideas of positivism concerning the relation between observational and theoretical languages; using aerodynamics to discuss the representational aspect of scientific theories and their isomorphic qualities; the relationship between the reliability of common sense and the authenticity of the world view of science; removing long-held ambiguities on the theory of inductive logic; and the relationship between the actuality of conceptual revolutions in the history of science and traditional philosophical pictures of scientific theory-building.

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The Rationality of Science.W. Newton-Smith - 1981 - Boston: Routledge.
Science without reduction.Helmut F. Spinner - 1973 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 16 (1-4):16 – 94.
For and against method. [REVIEW]Noretta Koertge - 1972 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 23 (3):274-290.
Chess, Imagination, and Perceptual Understanding.Paul Coates - 2013 - Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 73:211-242.
Framework for a taxonomy of scientific metaphor.Elaine Botha - 1988 - Philosophia Reformata 53 (2):143-170.

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