Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

* Broad ranging anthology that presents the best classical and contemporary material within the context of current trends in the philosophy of science (can be used as a core text or a supplemental reader).

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Philosophy of Science: An Overview
• Part 1 The Social Context in Which Scientific Knowledge is Produced
• On the Psychology of Scientists, and Their Social Concerns
• A Lab of Her Own
• Women Join the Ranks of Science but Remain Invisible at the Top
• Science v. the Female Scientist
• Science v. Women-A Radical Solution
• An Anthropologist Visits the Laboratory
• Part 2 The Empirical Basis of Scientific Knowledge
• The Problem Of The Empirical Basis
• Observation
• Pump and Circumstance: Robert Boyle''s Literary Technology
• Interviewing Women: A Contradiction in Terms
• Against Putting the Phenomena First: The Discovery of the Week Neutral Current
• Part 3 The Validation of Scientific Knowledge
• The Confirmation Of Laws and Theories
• Science: Conjectures and Refutations
• Physical Theory and Experiment
• Falsification and the Methodology of Scien- tific Research Pogrammes
• Objectivity, Value Judgment, and Theory Choice
• Have Only Men Evolved
• Can There Be a Feminist Science?
• Part 4 The Historical Development of Scientific Knowledge
• Explanation in Science?
• Unity of Science as a Working Hypothesis
• The Rationality of Scientific Revolutions
• The Function of Dogma in Scientific Research
• The Nature and Necessity of Scientific Reasoning
• Dissecting the Holist Picture of Scientific Change
• Part 5 Realism Versus Anti-Realism: The Ontological Import of Scientific Knowledge
• The Ontological Status of Theoretical Entities
• Arguments Concerning Scientific Realism
• A Case for Scientific Realism
• The Natural Ontological Attitude
• Critical Silences in Scientific Discourse: Problems of Form and Reform
• Realism and Instrumentalism in Pre-Newtonian Astronomy
• Experimentation and Scientific Realism