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  1. Philosophy of Science.Alexander Bird - 1998 - Mcgill-Queen's University Press.
    Many introductions to this field start with the problem of justifying scientific knowledge but Alexander Bird begins by examining the subject matter, or metaphysics, of science. Using topical scientific debates he vividly elucidates what it is for the world to be governed by laws of nature. This idea provides the basis for explanations and causes and leads to a discussion of natural kinds and theoretical entities. With this foundation in place he goes on to consider the epistemological issues of how (...)
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  • Science as argument: Implications for teaching and learning scientific thinking.Deanna Kuhn - 1993 - Science Education 77 (3):319-337.
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  • (4 other versions)The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.Thomas Samuel Kuhn - 1962 - Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Edited by Otto Neurath.
    A scientific community cannot practice its trade without some set of received beliefs. These beliefs form the foundation of the "educational initiation that prepares and licenses the student for professional practice". The nature of the "rigorous and rigid" preparation helps ensure that the received beliefs are firmly fixed in the student's mind. Scientists take great pains to defend the assumption that scientists know what the world is like...To this end, "normal science" will often suppress novelties which undermine its foundations. Research (...)
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  • (4 other versions)The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.Thomas S. Kuhn - 1962 - Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. Edited by Ian Hacking.
    Thomas S. Kuhn's classic book is now available with a new index.
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  • (1 other version)Theory and reality: an introduction to the philosophy of science.Peter Godfrey-Smith - 2003 - Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
    How does science work? Does it tell us what the world is "really" like? What makes it different from other ways of understanding the universe? In Theory and Reality , Peter Godfrey-Smith addresses these questions by taking the reader on a grand tour of one hundred years of debate about science. The result is a completely accessible introduction to the main themes of the philosophy of science. Intended for undergraduates and general readers with no prior background in philosophy, Theory and (...)
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  • What Is This Thing Called Science?A. F. Chalmers - 1979 - Erkenntnis 14 (3):393-404.
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  • From a Logical Point of View.Willard Van Orman Quine - 1953 - Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
    Several of these essays have been printed whole in journals; others are in varying degrees new. Two main themes run through them. One is the problem of meaning, particularly as involved in the notion of an analytic statement. The other is the notion of ontological, commitment, particularly as involved in the problem of universals.
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  • (1 other version)Philosophy of Science.Alexander Bird - 2000 - Mind 109 (434):325-327.
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  • Theory and Reality. An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science.Peter Godfrey-Smith - 2005 - Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 67 (2):393-394.
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  • How Scientists Explain Disease.Paul Thagard - 1999 - Princeton University Press.
    "This is a wonderful book! In "How Scientists Explain Disease," Paul Thagard offers us a delightful essay combining science, its history, philosophy, and sociology.
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  • Exploring a process view of students' knowledge about the nature of science.Kathleen Hogan - 2000 - Science Education 84 (1):51-70.
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  • Understanding students' practical epistemologies and their influence on learning through inquiry.William A. Sandoval - 2005 - Science Education 89 (4):634-656.
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  • Developing views of nature of science in an authentic context: An explicit approach to bridging the gap between nature of science and scientific inquiry.Reneé S. Schwartz, Norman G. Lederman & Barbara A. Crawford - 2004 - Science Education 88 (4):610-645.
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  • Sources from a Somerset village: A model for informal learning about radiation and radioactivity.Steve Alsop & Mike Watts - 1997 - Science Education 81 (6):633-650.
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  • Epistemologically authentic inquiry in schools: A theoretical framework for evaluating inquiry tasks.Clark A. Chinn & Betina A. Malhotra - 2002 - Science Education 86 (2):175-218.
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