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PREFACE A PROVOCATIVE PREFACE

6 pages
BOOK I INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE 168 pages
   
     
BOOK II ERNST MACH AND PIERRE DUHEM ON PHYSICAL THEORY 27 pages


     
BOOK III RUDOLF CARNAP ON SEMANTICAL SYSTEMS AND W.V.O. QUINE'S PRAGMATIST CRITIQUE 82 pages
   
     
BOOK IV WERNER HEISENBERG AND THE SEMANTICS OF QUANTUM MECHANICS 51 pages
   
     
BOOK V POPPER ON SCIENTIFIC CRITICISM AND THE SEMANTICS OF QUANTUM MECHANICS 49 pages
   
     
BOOK VI THOMAS KUHN ON REVOLUTION AND PAUL FEYERABEND ON ANARCHY 114 pages
   
     
BOOK VII RUSSELL HANSON, DAVID BOHM, AND OTHERS ON THE SEMANTICS OF DISCOVERY 85 pages
   
     
BOOK VIII HERBERT SIMON, PAUL THAGARD, PAT LANGLEY AND OTHERS ON DISCOVERY SYSTEMS 227 pages
   
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY   31 pages