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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