Some Philosophy of Science books

One of the most important sources is Kuhn's Structure of scientific revolutions, a book that changed the field of history of science:
 
CALL #       Q175 .K95 1970.
AUTHOR       Kuhn, Thomas S.
TITLE        The structure of scientific revolutions, by Thomas S. Kuhn.
IMPRINT      Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1970]
Other books by and about Kuhn:
CALL #       QB41.C815 K8.
AUTHOR       Kuhn, Thomas S.
TITLE        The Copernican revolution : planetary astronomy in the 
               development of Western thought / Thomas S. Kuhn.
IMPRINT      Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1957.

CALL #       Q175 .K954.
AUTHOR       Kuhn, Thomas S.
TITLE        The essential tension : selected studies in scientific tradition 
               and change / Thomas S. Kuhn.
IMPRINT      Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1977.

CALL #       Q175.3 .T48 1993.
TITLE        World changes : Thomas Kuhn and the nature of science / edited by
               Paul Horwich.
IMPRINT      Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1993.
CONTENTS     Thomas Kuhn, colleague and friend / Carl G. Hempel -- Carnap, 
               Kuhn, and the philosophy of scientific methodology / John 
               Earman -- Remarks on the history of science and the history of 
               philosophy / Michael Friedman -- Rationality and paradigm 
               change in science / Ernan McMullin -- A mathematicians' mutiny,
               with morals / J.L. Heilbron -- Science and humanism in the 
               Renaissance : Regiomontanus's Oration on the dignity and 
               utility of the mathematical sciences / N.M. Swerdlow -- Design 
               for experimenting / Jed Z. Buchwald -- Mediations : 
               enlightenment balancing acts, or the technologies of 
               rationalism / M. Norton Wise -- How we relate theory to 
               observation / Nancy Cartwright -- Working in a new world : the 
               taxonomic solution / Ian Hacking -- Afterwords / Thomas S. Kuhn.

CALL #       Q175.3 .P37.
TITLE        Paradigms and revolutions : appraisals and applications of Thomas
               Kuhn's philosophy of science / Gary Gutting, editor.
IMPRINT      Notre Dame : University of Notre Dame Press, c1980.

CALL #       Q174.8 .M37 1993.
AUTHOR       Margolis, Howard.
TITLE        Paradigms & barriers : how habits of mind govern scientific 
               beliefs / Howard Margolis.
IMPRINT      Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1993.

CALL #       Q175 .H88313 1993.
AUTHOR       Hoyningen-Huene, Paul, 1946-
TITLE        Wissenschaftsphilosophie Thomas S. Kuhns. English.
             Reconstructing scientific revolutions : Thomas S. Kuhn's 
               philosophy of science / Paul Hoyningen-Huene ; translated by 
               Alexander T. Levine ; with a foreword by Thomas S. Kuhn.
IMPRINT      Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1993.
Some general sources, concentrating on the most recent:
CALL #       Q175 .B225 1991.
AUTHOR       Barrow, John D., 1952-
TITLE        Theories of everything : the quest for ultimate explanation / 
               John D. Barrow.
IMPRINT      Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University
               Press, 1991.

CALL #       Q175 .B25 1992.
AUTHOR       Bauer, Henry H.
TITLE        Scientific literacy and the myth of the scientific method / Henry
               H. Bauer.
IMPRINT      Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1992.

CALL #       Q175 .B7965 1991.
AUTHOR       Brown, James Robert.
TITLE        The laboratory of the mind : thought experiments in the natural 
               sciences / James Robert Brown.
IMPRINT      London ; New York : Routledge, 1991.
CONTENTS     Illustrations from the laboratory of the mind -- Structure of 
               thought experiments -- Mathematical thinking -- Seeing the laws
               of nature -- Einstein's brand of verificationism -- Quantum 
               mechanics : a platonic interpretation.

CALL #       Q175 .C613 1994.
AUTHOR       Cohen, Jack.
TITLE        The collapse of chaos : discovering simplicity in a complex 
               world / Jack Cohen & Ian Stewart.
IMPRINT      New York : Viking, 1994.

CALL #       Q175 .C897 1993.
AUTHOR       Cromer, Alan H., 1935-
TITLE        Uncommon sense / the heretical nature of science / Alan Cromer.
IMPRINT      New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.

CALL #       Q175 .D6636 1996.
TITLE        The Disunity of science : boundaries, contexts, and power / 
               edited by Peter Galison and David J. Stump.
IMPRINT      Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1996.

CALL #       Q175 .D847 1995.
AUTHOR       Dunbar, R. I. M. (Robin Ian MacDonald), 1947-
TITLE        The trouble with science / Robin Dunbar.
IMPRINT      Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, c1995.

CALL #       Q175 .K533 1993.
AUTHOR       Kitcher, Philip, 1947-
TITLE        The advancement of science : science without legend, objectivity 
               without illusions / Philip Kitcher.
IMPRINT      New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.

CALL #       Q175 .K8648 1992.
AUTHOR       Kosso, Peter.
TITLE        Reading the book of nature : an introduction to the philosophy of
               science / Peter Kosso.
IMPRINT      Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1992.

CALL #       Q175 .O5 1994.
TITLE        The ontology of science / edited by John Worrall.
IMPRINT      Aldershot ; Brookfield, Vt., USA : Dartmouth, c1994.

CALL #       Q175 .P384 1991.
TITLE        Persuading science : the art of scientific rhetoric / Marcello 
               Pera and William R. Shea, editors.
IMPRINT      Canton, MA : Science History Publications, USA, 1991.
CONTENTS     Science and persuasion. Persuasion / Philip Kitcher -- The role 
               and value of rhetoric in science / Marcello Pera -- Rhetoric 
               and theory choice in science / Ernan McMullin -- Mnemonical 
               loci and natural loci / Paolo Rossi -- On deciding what to 
               believe and how to talk about nature / Dudley Shapere -- 
               Rhetoric in action. Galileo and Newton : different rhetorical 
               strategies / Richard S. Westfall -- Descartes and the art of 
               persuasion / William R. Shea -- The person-centered rhetoric of
               seventeenth-century science / Peter Machamer -- The rhetoric of
               certainty : Newton's method in science and in the 
               interpretation of the Apocalypse / Maurizio Mamiani -- Quanta, 
               relativity, and rhetoric / Gerald Holton.

CALL #       Q175 .R5665 1996.
AUTHOR       Rouse, Joseph, 1952-
TITLE        Engaging science : how to understand its practices 
               philosophically / Joseph Rouse.
IMPRINT      Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, c1996.

CALL #       Q175 .T4793 1992.
AUTHOR       Thagard, Paul.
TITLE        Conceptual revolutions / Paul Thagard.
IMPRINT      Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1992.

CALL #       Q175 .W569 1992.
AUTHOR       White, Michael J., 1948-
TITLE        The continuous and the discrete : ancient physical theories from 
               a contemporary perspective / Michael J. White.
IMPRINT      Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 
               1992.

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