Philosophy of Natural Science

Author: Liu Da Chun
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Publish Date: 2006-11-01
Features: This book provides highly in-depth, rigorous, and concise arguments on the major issues of contemporary philosophy of science and methodology of science, such as the problem of scientific discovery and hypothesis testing, the nature of scientific laws and scientific theories, the structure and function of scientific explanation, and the formation of scientific concepts and the reduction problem of scientific theories. For all these issues, the author selects the most appropriate, most typical, and most vivid cases from the history of science to provide popular explanations. Therefore, it has become a highly engaging textbook on the philosophy of science and is widely popular in countries around the world, with translations available in more than ten languages.