The Philosophy of Carl G. Hempel: Studies in Science, Explanation, and Rationality

Contents......Page 12
Introduction......Page 14
Part I: Cognitive Significance......Page 36
1. On the Nature of Mathematical Truth......Page 38
2. Geometry and Empirical Science......Page 53
3. Recent Problems of Induction......Page 64
4. On the Structure of Scientific Theories......Page 84
Part II: Explanation and Prediction......Page 102
5. Explanation and Prediction by Covering Laws......Page 104
6. Deductive-Nomological versus Statistical Explanation......Page 122
7. Maximal Specificity and Lawlikeness in Probabilistic Explanation......Page 181
8. Postscript 1976: More Recent Ideas on the Problem of Statistical Explanation......Page 200
Part III: Scientific Theories......Page 222
9. Reduction: Ontological and Linguistic Facets......Page 224
10. The Meaning of Theoretical Terms: A Critique of the Standard Empiricist Construal......Page 243
11. On the "Standard Conception" of Scientific Theories......Page 253
12. Limits of a Deductive Construal of the Function of Scientific Theories......Page 272
Part IV: Explanations of Behavior......Page 286
13. Logical Positivism and the Social Sciences......Page 288
14. Explanation in Science and in History......Page 311
15. Reasons and Covering Laws in Historical Explanation......Page 332
16. Rational Action......Page 346
Part V: Scientific Rationality......Page 362
17. Science Unlimited?......Page 364
18. Turns in the Evolution of the Problem of Induction......Page 379
19. Scientific Rationality: Normative versus Descriptive Construals......Page 392
20. Valuation and Objectivity in Science......Page 407
A Bibliography of Carl G. Hempel......Page 432
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