General Introduction to the Philosophy of Science

Author: Liu Da Chun
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Publish Date: 1998-08-01
Features: This book is one of the "Renmin University of China Master's Series Textbooks." It helps systematically reflect and summarize the fundamental issues of science from a philosophical perspective. The book consists of six chapters, which respectively elaborate on the structure and function of scientific theories, scientific experiments, measurement, and the spatiotemporal framework, causality, determinism, and probabilistic statistics, the linguistic analysis of scientific activities, the logic of scientific discovery, and the historical evolution of metascientific inquiry. The philosophy of science is a product of the development of modern science. It emerged with the rise of positivism as a philosophical movement.