Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Science (2004)
Hitchcock, Christopher (Editor)
Blackwell Publishers
Physical Details: xiii + 348 pp.; ill.; bib.; index
Language: English
Description Includes discussion of empiricism, probability, laws in the social sciences, causation, entropy, genetic encoding, and natural selection. Contributors: James Robert Brown, John D. Norton, Patrick Maher, Kevin T. Kelly, Clark Glymour, Jarrett Leplin, André Kukla, Joel Walmsley, John T. Roberts, Harold Kincaid, Phil Dowe, Jonathan Schaffer, Huw Price, Craig Callender, Sahotra Sarkar, Peter Godfrey-Smith, Peter Carruthers, James Woodward, Fiona Cowie.
Essay Review French, Steven (2004) Spicing Up the Philosophy of Science. Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (pp. 309-317).
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