The philosophy of science: an historical anthology

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Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell (2009)
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speaking there are only two sorts of opposition to be found here. One is the opposition between motion and rest, together with the opposition between ...

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The Inductive Method.Francis Bacon
The “Corpuscular” Philosophy.Robert Boyle
The New Star.Tycho Brahe
Impetus and its applications.Jean Buridan
Theory and Observation.Rudolf Carnap
The Motion of the Earth.Nicholas Copernicus
A moving earth 139.Crete Corfu
Catastrophist Geology.Georges Cuvier
The Explanatory Scope of the Evolutionary Hypothesis.Charles Darwin
Rationalism and Scientific Method.René Descartes
Rules for the Discovery of Scientific Truth.René Descartes
A Moving Earth Is More Probable Than the Alternative.Stillman Drake
The Ship and the Tower.Stillman Drake
Against Crucial Experiments.Pierre Duhem
On the method of theoretical physics.Albert Einstein
Tradition and Experience.Galileo Galilei
The Copernican View Vindicated.Galileo Galilei
On Observation.N. R. Hanson
Scientific Explanation.Carl Hempel
Hypotheses, Data, and Crucial Experiments.John Herschel
The Nature of Cause and Effect.David Hume
The Problem of Induction.David Hume
Successful Hypotheses and High Probability.Christiaan Huygens
124 Johannes Kepler.Das Mittele is nur ein Diipfflin
A Man Ahead of His Time.Johannes Kepler
Eight Minutes of Arc.Johannes Kepler
On Arguments about a Moving Earth.Johannes Kepler
Atoms and Empty Space.Diogenes Laertius
Determinism, Ignorance, and Probability.Pierre-Simon Laplace
The Nature of Scientific Explanation.Antoine Lavoisier
Space, Time, and Symmetry.Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
The Principle of Least Action.Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits.John Locke
Uniformitarian Geology.Charles Lyell
Against the Reality of Epicycles and Eccentrics.Moses Maimonides
An Empiricist Account of Scientific Discovery.John Stuart Mill
Four Rules of Reasoning.Isaac Newton
Inductive Methodology.Isaac Newton
Space, Time, and the Elements of Physics.Isaac Newton
The general scholium.Isaac Newton
The System of the World.Isaac Newton
The Possibility of a Rotating Earth.Nicole Oresme
The Unsigned Letter.Andreas Osiander
Induction as a Self-Correcting Process.Charles Sanders Peirce
The Nature of Abduction.Charles Sanders Peirce
Free Fall.John Philoponus
Projectile Motion.John Philoponus
The Role of Hypotheses in Physical Theory.Henri Poincaré
The Earth: Its Size, Shape, and Immobility.Claudius Ptolemy
The Pragmatic Vindication of Induction.Hans Reichenbach
The Nature and Grounds of the Copernican System.Georg Joachim Rheticus
Dissolving the problem of induction.Peter Strawson
Against Pure Empiricism.William Whewell
The Causes Behind the Phenomena.William Whewell

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