James Robert Brown is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, Canada.

• AcknowledgementsNotes on Contributors Preface Introduction, James Robert Brown (University of Toronto, Canada)1. Experience and Necessity: The Whewell and Mill Debate, Laura Snyder (St. John’s University, USA)2. Conventionalism: Poincaré, Duhem, Reichenbach, Torsten Wilholt (Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany)3. The Vienna Circle: Moritz Schlick, Rudolf Carnap, Otto Neurath, Friedrich Stadler (University of Vienna, Austria)4. Carl G. Hempel: Logical Empiricist, Martin Curd (Purdue University, USA)5. Anti-Inductivism as Worldview: The Philosophy of Karl Popper, Steve Fuller (University of Warwick, UK)6. Historical Approaches: Kuhn, Lakatos and Feyerabend, Martin Carrier (Bielefeld University, Germany)7. The Contingency of the Causal Nexus: Ghazali and Modern Science, Arun Bala (National University of Singapore, Singapore)8.Sociology of Science: Bloor, Collins, Latour, Martin Kusch (University of Vienna, Austria)9. One Cannot Be Just a Little Bit Realist: Putnam and van Fraassen, Stathis Psillos (University of Athens, Greece)10. Beyond Theories: Hacking and Cartwright, William Seager (University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada)11. Feminist Critiques: Harding and Longino, Janet Kourany (University of Notre Dame, USA)Afterword Index

A well-thought complement to traditional introductions to the philosophy of science. Introduced by leading scholars in their fields, the key debates in the discipline, from inductivism to realism, are not only clarified but enlightened so as to be of interest to students and scholars alike.