6. The Structure of Discovery

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Preface XI
4. Acknowledgments XV
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I: Explanation
7. Preface to Part I 15
8. 1. Aspects of Hempel's Philosophy of Science 17
9. 2. Science and System: 35
10. 3. Gosse's Omphalos Theory and the Eccentricity of Belief 54
11. 4. Creationism and Evolution 74
12. Part II: Hume's Problem
13. Preface to Part II 87
14. 5. The Paradox of Induction and the Inductive Wager 89
15. 6. The Structure of Discovery 98
16. 7. Induction and the Kindness of Nature 112
17. Part III: Logic and Causality
18. Preface to Part III 125
19. 8. Three Logics, or the Possibility of the Improbable 127
20. 9. Mach's Principle and the Laws of Logic 138
21. 10. A Quantum Theory of Causality 146
22. 11. A Negative Interpretation of the Causal Principle 154
23. Part IV: Machines and Practices
24. Preface to Part IV 165
25. 12. Science, Computers, and the Complexity of Nature 167
26. 13. Praxis and Techne 176
27. 14. On the Concept of a Domain of Praxis 185
28. 15. Individual Praxis in Real Time 191
29. 16. Towards a Philosophy of Technology 196
30. 17. Scientific Theory as an Historical Anomaly 210
31. Part V: Scientific Knowledge— Its Scope and Limits
32. Preface to Part V 223
33. 18. Is There (Scientific) Knowledge? Who Knows? 225
34. 19. The Law of Quantity and Quality, or What Numbers Can and Can't Describe 241
35. 20. On Being in the Same Place at the Same Time 256
36. 21. On a Circularity in Our Knowledge of the Physically Real 262
37. 22. Truth and Presence 271
38. Part VI. Science and Subjectivity
39. Preface to Part VI 285
40. 23. Science, Surrealism, and the Status of the Subject 289
41. 24. Subjectivity in the Machine 299
42. 25. Rethinking Intentionality 318
43. 26. Yorick's World, or the Universe in a Single Skull 332
44. 27. A Case for the Human Sciences 349
45. Notes 363
46. Notes on Sources 381
47. Index 385