What I Do Not Believe, and Other Essays

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• I / Philosophy of Science.
• I. A Picture Theory of Theory-Meaning.
• II. On Elementary Particle Theory.
• III. Some Philosophical Aspects of Contemporary Cosmologies.
• IV. Stability Proofs and Consistency Proofs: A Loose Analogy.
• II / History of Science.
• V. Leverrier: The Zenith and Nadir of Newtonian Mechanics.
• VI. The Contributions of Other Disciplines to 19th Century Physics.
• III / General Philosophy.
• VII. On Being in Two Places at Once.
• VIII. Copernicus’ Rôle in Kant’s Revolution.
• IX. It’s Actual, so It’s Possible.
• X. On Having the Same Visual Experiences.
• XI. Mental Events Yet Again: Retrospect on Some Old Arguments.
• IV / Logic.
• XII. Imagining the Impossible.
• XIII. On the Impossibility of Any Future Metaphysics.
• XIV. Good Inductive Reasons.
• XV. A Budget of Cross-Type Inferences, or Invention is the Mother of Necessity.
• XVI. The Irrelevance of History of Science to Philosophy of Science.
• XVII. The Idea of a Logic of Discovery.
• V / Religion.
• XVIII. The Agnostic’s Dilemma.
• XIX. What I Don’t Believe.
• VI / The Theory Of Flight.
• Introduction, by Edward MacKinnon, S. J..
• XX. Lecture One: The Discovery of Air.
• XXI. Lecture Two: The Shape of An Idea.
• XXII. Lecture Three: The Idea of a Shape.