What I Do Not Believe, and Other Essays

Acknowledgments
	First Edition
	Second Edition
Introductory Note for the First Edition
Introduction
	References
Contents
Part I: Philosophy of Science
	Chapter 1: A Picture Theory of Theory-Meaning
		References
	Chapter 2: On Elementary Particle Theory
		2.1 Introduction
		2.2 The Aim of the Theory
		2.3 The Structure of the Theory
		2.4 The Physical Significance of the Theory
		2.5 Some Remarks
		2.6 Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 3: Some Philosophical Aspects of Contemporary Cosmologies
		3.1 The Creation of All There Is
		3.2 Conservation ‘Beyond the Edge’
		3.3 Why Is It Dark at Night?
		References
	Chapter 4: Stability Proofs and Consistency Proofs: A Loose Analogy
		Appendix
		References
	Chapter 5: Observation and Explanation: A Guide to Philosophy of Science
		5.1	 Observation
		5.2	 Facts
		5.3	 Measurement
		5.4	 Induction
		5.5	 Experiment
		5.6	 Causality
		5.7	 Explanation
		5.8	 Theories
		5.9	 Laws
		5.10 Hypothetico-Deduction
		5.11 Retroduction
		5.12 Theoretical Entities
		5.13 Craig’s Theorem
		5.14 Verification
		5.15 Falsification
		5.16	 Models
		References
Part II: History of Science
	Chapter 6: Leverrier: The Zenith and Nadir of Newtonian Mechanics
		Appendix: On the Impossibility of a Straight Line Solution to the Three-Body Problem
		References
	Chapter 7: The Contributions of Other Disciplines to Nineteenth Century Physics
		References
	Chapter 8: The Trial of Galileo
		References
Part III: General Philosophy
	Chapter 9: On Being in Two Places at Once
		References
	Chapter 10: Copernicus’ Rôle in Kant’s Revolution
		References
	Chapter 11: It’s Actual, So It’s Possible
		Reference
	Chapter 12: On Having the Same Visual Experiences
		References
	Chapter 13: Mental Events Yet Again: Retrospect on Some Old Arguments
		References
Part IV: Logic
	Chapter 14: Imagining the Impossible
	Chapter 15: On the Impossibility of Any Future Metaphysics
		References
	Chapter 16: Good Inductive Reasons
		Reference
	Chapter 17: A Budget of Cross-Type Inferences, or Invention Is the Mother of Necessity
		17.1 Introduction
		17.2 Inferences from Contingency to Necessity
		17.3 Inferences from Necessity to Contingency
		17.4 On Resolving Apparently Cross-Type Inferences
		17.5 Concerning Inferences from Necessity to Contingency
		17.6 Restating the HLLL Dictum
		References
	Chapter 18: The Irrelevance of History of Science to Philosophy of Science
		References
	Chapter 19: The Idea of a Logic of Discovery
		References
Part V: Religion
	Chapter 20: The Agnostic’s Dilemma
	Chapter 21: What I Don’t Believe
Part VI: The Theory of Flight
	Chapter 22: Introduction
		References
	Chapter 23: Lecture One: The Discovery of Air
		Appendix
		References
	Chapter 24: Lecture Two: The Shape of an Idea
		References
	Chapter 25: Lecture Three: The Idea of a Shape
		References