Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi
4. INTRODUCTION. Replacing Positivism 1
5. PART ONE: Explanation
6. CHAPTER ONE. Explanation: The Covering-Law Model 15
7. CHAPTER TWO. The Nature of Explanation 60
8. CHAPTER THREE. Applications 106
9. PART TWO: Confirmation
10. CHAPTER FOUR. Confirmation as Causal Comparison 155
11. CHAPTER FIVE. Deductivism: Plain and with Simplicity 225
12. CHAPTER SIX. The New Positivism 267
13. CHAPTER SEVEN. Anti-Bayes 297
14. PART THREE: Realism
15. CHAPTER EIGHT. The Issue of Realism 351
16. CHAPTER NINE. Learning from Anti-Realism 391
17. CHAPTER TEN. A Defense of Realism 448
18. CHAPTER ELEVEN. Quantum Reality 515
19. INDEX 605