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  1. The scientific image.C. Van Fraassen Bas - 1980 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    In this book van Fraassen develops an alternative to scientific realism by constructing and evaluating three mutually reinforcing theories.
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  • Critical scientific realism.Ilkka Niiniluoto - 1999 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    This book comes to the rescue of scientific realism, showing that reports of its death have been greatly exaggerated. Philosophical realism holds that the aim of a particular discourse is to make true statements about its subject matter. Ilkka Niiniluoto surveys different kinds of realism in various areas of philosophy and then sets out his own critical realist philosophy of science.
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  • (1 other version)What is This Thing Called Science?: An Assessment of the Nature and Status of Science and its Methods.Alan Francis Chalmers - 1982 - Indianapolis: Hackett Pub. Co..
    Since its first publication in 1976, Alan Chalmers's highly regarded and widely read work--translated into eighteen languages--has become a classic introduction to the scientific method, known for its accessibility to beginners and its value as a resource for advanced students and scholars. -- Amazon.com.
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  • (6 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)Philosophy of chemistry.Joachim Schummer - manuscript
    Chemical ideas about the diversity of matter in terms of elements and compound substances and their transformations have been pivotal to any scientific or pre-scientific approach ever since. From ancient natural philosophy and alchemy to modern 19th-century chemistry, these ideas were made both the basis of philosophical systems and the target of critical reflection. After temporary interruption, when modern philosophy of science materialized as a discourse on mathematical physics, philosophy of chemistry emerged anew in the 1980s and is now a (...)
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  • (2 other versions)Thomas Kuhn.Alexander Bird - 2018 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
    Thomas Samuel Kuhn (1922–1996) is one of the most influential philosophers of science of the twentieth century, perhaps the most influential. His 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is one of the most cited academic books of all time. Kuhn’s contribution to the philosophy of science marked not only a break with several key positivist doctrines, but also inaugurated a new style of philosophy of science that brought it closer to the history of science. His account of the development (...)
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  • Editorial 1.Eric R. Scerri - 1999 - Foundations of Chemistry 1 (1):107-109.
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  • The Scientific Image.William Demopoulos & Bas C. van Fraassen - 1982 - Philosophical Review 91 (4):603.
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  • The Disorder of Things: Metaphysical Foundations of the Disunity of Science.John Dupré - 1993 - Harvard University Press.
    With this manifesto, John Dupré systematically attacks the ideal of scientific unity by showing how its underlying assumptions are at odds with the central conclusions of science itself.
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  • (2 other versions)Towards a Philosophy of Chemistry.Joachim Schummer - 1997 - Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 28 (2):307 - 336.
    The paper shows epistemological, methodological and ontological peculiarities of chemistry taken as a classificatory science of materials using experimental methods. Without succumbing to standard interpretations of physical science, chemical methods of experimental investigation, classification, reference, theorizing, prediction and production of new entities are developed one by one as first steps towards a philosophy of chemistry. Chemistry challenges traditional concepts of empirical object, empirical predicate, reference frame and theory, but also the distinction commonly drawn between natural science and technology. Due to (...)
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  • Challenging Standard Distinctions between Science and Technology: The Case of Preparative Chemistry.Joachim Schummer - 1997 - Hyle 3 (1):81 - 94.
    Part I presents a quantitative-empirical outline of chemistry, esp. preparative chemistry, concerning its dominant role in today's science, its dynamics, and its methods and aims. Emphasis is laid on the poietical character of chemistry for which a methodological model is derived. Part II discusses standard distinction between science and technology, from Aristotle (whose theses are reconsidered in the light of modern sciences) to modern philosophy of technology. Against the background of results of Part I, it is argued that all these (...)
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  • (1 other version)The halt and the blind: Philosophy and history of science. [REVIEW]Thomas S. Kuhn - 1980 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 31 (2):181-192.
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  • What Is This Thing Called Science?A. F. Chalmers - 1979 - Erkenntnis 14 (3):393-404.
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  • Philosophy of Chemistry. Between the Manifest and the Scientific Image.U. Klein - 2002 - Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 33 (1):168-174.
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  • Explaining Science: A Cognitive Approach. [REVIEW]Jeffrey S. Poland - 1988 - Philosophical Review 100 (4):653-656.
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  • Chemistry as an Interesting Subject for the Philosophy of Science.Rein Vihalemm - 2001 - In Estonian studies in the history and philosophy of science. Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 185--200.
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  • Notes on Lakatos.Thomas S. Kuhn - 1970 - PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1970:137 - 146.
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  • (1 other version)History of science and its rational reconstructions.Imre Lakatos - 1971 - In R. C. Buck & R. S. Cohen (eds.), Psa 1970. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science Viii. D. Reidel. pp. 91-108.
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  • Philosophy of Chemistry: Between the Manifest and the Scientific Image.Jap van Brakel - 2000 - Leuven University Press..
    This book addresses themes in the newly emerging discipline of philosophy of chemistry, in particular issues in connection with discussions in general philosophy of science on natural kinds, reduction and ceteris paribus laws. The philosophical issue addressed in all chapters is the relation between, on the one hand, the manifest image (the daily practice or common-sense-life-form) and on the other the scientific image, both of which claim to be the final arbiter of "everything." With respect to chemistry, the question raised (...)
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  • Kant's legacy for the philosophy of chemistry.Jaap Van Brakel - 2006 - In Davis Baird, Eric R. Scerri & Lee C. McIntyre (eds.), Philosophy of chemistry: synthesis of a new discipline. Dordrecht: Springer.
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  • Thomas Kuhn.Alexander Bird - 2000 - Routledge.
    Thomas Kuhn transformed the philosophy of science. His seminal 1962 work "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" introduced the term 'paradigm shift' into the vernacular and remains a fundamental text in the study of the history and philosophy of science. This introduction to Kuhn's ideas covers the breadth of his philosophical work, situating "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" within Kuhn's wider thought and drawing attention to the development of his ideas over time. Kuhn's work is assessed within the context of other (...)
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  • (1 other version)The halt and the blind: Philosophy and history of science: "Method and appraisal in the physical sciences". [REVIEW]Thomas S. Kuhn - 1980 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 31 (2):181-192.
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  • (2 other versions)Thomas Kuhn.Alexander Bird - 2014 - In Edward N. Zalta (ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, CA: The Metaphysics Research Lab.
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  • Are laws of nature and scientific theories peculiar in chemistry? Scrutinizing mendeleev's discovery.R. Vihalemm - 2003 - Foundations of Chemistry 5 (1):7-22.
    The problem of the peculiarcharacter of chemical laws and theories is a central topic in philosophy of chemistry. Oneof the most characteristic and, at the sametime, most puzzling examples in discussions onchemical laws and theories is Mendeleev''speriodic law. This law seems to be essentiallydifferent in its nature from the exact laws ofclassical physics, the latter being usuallyregarded as a paradigm of science byphilosophers. In this paper the main argumentsconcerning the peculiar character of chemicallaws and theories are examined. The laws ofchemistry (...)
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  • On the neglect of the philosophy of chemistry.J. van Brakel - 1999 - Foundations of Chemistry 1 (2):111-174.
    In this paper I present a historiography of the recent emergence of philosophy of chemistry. Special attention is given to the interest in this domain in Eastern Europe before the collapse of the USSR. It is shown that the initial neglect of the philosophy of chemistry is due to the unanimous view in philosophy and philosophy of science that only physics is a proper science (to put in Kant's words). More recently, due to the common though incorrect assumption that chemistry (...)
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  • (2 other versions)Towards a philosophy of chemistry. A short extract of this paper was first read at the 10th international congress of logic, methodology and philosophy of science, Florence, August 19–25, 1995. [REVIEW]Joachim Schummer - 1997 - Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 28 (2):307-336.
    The paper shows epistemological, methodological and ontological peculiarities of chemistry taken as a classificatory science of materials using experimental methods. Without succumbing to standard interpretations of physical science, chemical methods of experimental investigation, classification, reference, theorizing, prediction and production of new entities are developed one by one as first steps towards a philosophy of chemistry. Chemistry challenges traditional concepts of empirical object, empirical predicate, reference frame and theory, but also the distinction commonly drawn between natural science and technology. Due to (...)
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  • Critical Notices.Ilkka Niiniluoto - 2007 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 69 (1):227-246.
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  • Chemistry and a theoretical model of science: On the occasion of a recent debate with the christies. [REVIEW]Rein Vihalemm - 2005 - Foundations of Chemistry 7 (2):171-182.
    In the philosophy of chemistry a view is developed according to which laws of nature and scientific theories are peculiar in chemistry. This view was criticized in an earlier issue of the Foundations of Chemistry (Vihalemm, Foundation of Chemistry 5(1): 7–22, 2003) referring to an essay by Maureen and John Christie (Christie and Christie, in N. Bushan and S. Rosenfeld (Eds.), Of Minds and Molecules: New Philosophical Perspectives on Chemistry. Oxford University Press, New York, 2000, pp. 34–50). This criticism was (...)
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  • Editorial 2.Eric R. Scerri - 1999 - Foundations of Chemistry 1 (2):107-109.
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  • (1 other version)History of Science and Its Rational Reconstructions.Imre Lakatos - 1970 - PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1970:91-136.
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  • (1 other version)The Philosophy of Science.Stephen Toulmin - 1954 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 5 (19):268-269.
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  • (1 other version)The Philosophy of Science.Stephen Toulmin - 1954 - Mind 63 (251):403-412.
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  • (2 other versions)Thomas Kuhn.Alexander Bird - 2002 - Philosophical Quarterly 52 (209):654-657.
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  • The philosophy of science.Stephen Toulmin - 1953 - New York,: Hutchinson's University Library.
    This classic work of philosophy offers a rigorous and accessible introduction to the philosophy of science. Toulmin provides a careful analysis of the logic and methodology of scientific inquiry, and explores key debates in the field, such as the nature of scientific discovery and the role of experimentation. With clarity and precision, this book offers a compelling argument for the essential role of philosophy in understanding the nature of scientific knowledge.
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  • (1 other version)Philosophy of Chemistry.Joachim Schummer - 2010 - In Fritz Allhoff (ed.), Philosophies of the Sciences. Malden, MA: Wiley‐Blackwell. pp. 163–183.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction What is Chemistry about? Is Chemistry Reducible to Physics? Are There Fundamental Limits to Chemical Knowledge? Is Chemical Research Ethically Neutral? Conclusion References.
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  • Stages in the Empirical Programme of Relativism.Harry M. Collins - 1981 - Social Studies of Science 11:3-10.
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  • Editorial.Eric R. Scerri - 1999 - Foundations of Chemistry 1 (2):107-109.
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  • What Is This Thing Called Science? An Assessment of the Nature and Status of Science and Its Methods.A. F. Chalmers - 1978 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 29 (4):389-392.
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  • Some comments on a naturalistic approach to the philosophy of science.Rein Vihalemm - 1995 - Studia Philosophica 2 (38):9-18.
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  • Ars Mutandi: Issues in Philosophy and History of Chemistry.Nikolaos Psarros & Kōstas Gavroglou (eds.) - 1999 - Leipziger Universitätsverlag.
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  • Can chemistry be handled as its own type of science.Rein Vihalemm - 1999 - In Nikolaos Psarros & Kōstas Gavroglou (eds.), Ars Mutandi: Issues in Philosophy and History of Chemistry. Leipziger Universitätsverlag. pp. 83--88.
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