After Popper, Kuhn and Feyerabend

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. A Selective Survey of Theories of Scientific Method

   • Robert Nola, Howard Sankey

   Pages 1-65

3. How We Know about Electrons

   • John D. Norton

   Pages 67-97

4. The Rationality of the Chemical Revolution

   • Andrew Pyle

   Pages 99-124

5. Kuhn, Bayes and ‘Theory-Choice’: How Revolutionary is Kuhn’s Account of Theoretical Change?

   • John Worrall

   Pages 125-151

6. With Friends Like These ..., or What is Inductivism and Why is it Off the Agenda?

   • John F. Fox

   Pages 153-164

7. Is Epistemology Adequate to the Task of Rational Theory Evaluation?

   • Larry Laudan

   Pages 165-175

8. Naturalism Logicized

   • Kevin T. Kelly

   Pages 177-210

9. Methodological Pluralism, Normative Naturalism and the Realist Aim of Science

   • Howard Sankey

   Pages 211-229

10. Hard Problems in the Philosophy of Science: Idealisation and Commensurability

    • Malcolm R. Forster

    Pages 231-250

11. Back Matter

    Pages 251-257

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Some think that issues to do with scientific method are last century's stale debate; Popper was an advocate of methodology, but Kuhn, Feyerabend, and others are alleged to have brought the debate about its status to an end. The papers in this volume show that issues in methodology are still very much alive. Some of the papers reinvestigate issues in the debate over methodology, while others set out new ways in which the debate has developed in the last decade. The book will be of interest to philosophers and scientists alike in the reassessment it provides of earlier debates about method and current directions of research.

• Karl R. Popper
• epistemology
• issue
• knowledge
• philosophy

• University of Auckland, New Zealand

  Robert Nola

• University of Melbourne, Australia

  Howard Sankey

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