Lectures on Structure and Significance of Science

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• 1st Lecture Prologue: Science and Responsibility.
• 2nd Lecture The Motivation of Science.
• 3rd Lecture The Scientific Approach (1): Terminology and Language.
• 4th Lecture The Scientific Approach (2): Data, Hypotheses, and Theories.
• 5th Lecture The Scientific Approach (3): Laws, Prediction, Explanation.
• 6th Lecture The Principle of Causality.
• 7th Lecture The Structure of Teleological Action.
• 8th Lecture Physics and Biology: The Problem of Reduction.
• 9th Lecture Physiology and Comparative Biology.
• 10th Lecture Tradition and Progress in Science: The Notion of Paradigms.
• 11th Lecture The Ethics of Science.
• 12th Lecture Science and Technology.
• 13th Lecture The Crisis of Science.
• 14th Lecture Science and Values.
• 15th Lecture Epilogue: Epistemology and Evolution.
• References.