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Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Contributors -- Karl Popper: His Philosophy and Science -- 1 Knowledge and Criticism -- 1.1 The Dangers of Dogmatism -- 1.2 Criticism Needs a Boost -- 2 From Demarcation to a New Concept of Reason -- 2.1 Basic Statements -- 2.2 Corroboration -- 3 The Popperian Challenge -- 3.1 Anti-Justificationist Extremism -- 3.2 Scientific Practice -- 3.3 New Concept of Reason -- References -- Physics and Cosmology -- Popper and the Quantum Controversy -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Popper and Quantum Mechanics -- 2.1 Popper's Early Concerns with Quantum Theory (1934) -- 2.2 The Turning Point: From Philosophy to Physics (Ca. 1967-1968) -- 2.3 The Mature View: Popper's Experiment (The 1980s) -- 3 Epilogue: Popper's Legacy in Quantum Physics -- 3.1 Kim and Shih, and the Real Popper Experiment -- 3.2 Popper's Ideas in Contemporary Physics: The Revival of Indeterminism -- References -- Popper's Experiment -- References -- Karl Popper and Modern Cosmology: His Thoughts and Their Impact -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Popper on Cosmology -- 2.1 Einstein's Influence on Popper -- 2.2 Does the Universe Expand? -- 2.3 Finite-Age Cosmological Models -- 2.4 Against the Big Bang -- 3 Cosmologists on Popper -- 3.1 The Steady-State Controversy: Bondi and Popper -- 3.2 Falsifiability in Modern Cosmology -- 3.3 The Multiverse: Physics or Metaphysics? -- 3.4 According to Popper -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- MOND and Methodology -- 1 . -- 2 . -- 3 . -- 4 . -- 5 . -- 6 . -- 7 . -- 8 . -- References -- The Application of Popperian Methodology to Contemporary Cosmology -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Metaphysical Research Programmes -- 2.1 Popper's Use of the Term "Metaphysical" -- 3 Metaphysical Ideas in Contemporary Cosmology -- 3.1 The Cosmological Principle as a Constituent of a MRP -- 3.2 The Standard Model of Cosmology (ΛCDM) as a Metaphysical Research Programme.

Complementary and mutually reinforcing, political science and political philosophy lie at the heart of the study of governance. The concept of how government could or should operate in the abstract is the province of political philosophy, while political science concerns itself with the concrete. Readers will chronicle the history and development of both fields and introduces readers to the major thinkers-including Aristotle, Machiavelli, and Weber-whose works have informed the study of politics the world over

Naturalized feminist empiricism -- Feminist tacking between science and philosophy of science -- Feminist philosophy of science and feminist value theory -- Feminist conceptual empiricism -- Standpoint epistemologies of science -- Concluding arguments : can the philosophy of science be value-free?

In recent years, many members of the intellectual community have embraced a radical relativism regarding knowledge in general and scientific knowledge in particular, holding that Kuhn, Quine, and Feyerabend have knocked the traditional picture of scientific knowledge into a cocked hat. Is philosophy of science, or mistaken impressions of it, responsible for the rise of relativism? In this book, Laudan offers a trenchant, wide-ranging critique of cognitive relativism and a thorough introduction to major issues in the philosophy of knowledge.

Frontmatter --Contents --Preface --1. Twenty-First-Century Science --2. Contemporary Approaches --3. Structure and Action in Science --4. Science as a Rational Process --5. Robust Knowledge for Complex Problems --6. The Future of Science --References --Glossary and Index --Colophon