Metatheory

The following books on the philosophy of science are recommended as part of my own collection.


Van Fraassen, B. (1980). The scientific image. New York: Oxford University Press. (Paperback: $29.95)

Cartwright, N. (1983). How the laws of physics lie. New York: Oxford University Press. (Paperback: $39.95)

Hacking, I. (1983). Representing and intervening: Introductory topics in the philosophy of natural science. New York: Cambridge University Press. (Paperback: $34.99)

Hacking, I. (1999). The social construction of what? Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Paperback: $20.50)

Hacking, I. (1975). Why does language matter to philosophy? New York: Cambridge University Press. (Paperback: $26.99)

Hacking, I. (2001). An introduction to probability and inductive logic. New York: Cambridge University Press. (Paperback: $27.99)

Hacking, I. (1990). The taming of chance. New York: Cambridge University Press. (Paperback: $23.00)

Hacking, I. (1975). The emergence of probability. New York: Cambridge University Press. (Paperback: $34.99)

Gigerenzer, G., Swijtink, Z., Porter, T., Daston, L., Beatty, J., & Krüger, L. (1989). The empire of chance: How probability changed science and everyday life. New York: Cambridge University Press. (Paperback: $29.99)

Lewis, M. (1997). Altering fate: Why the past does not predict the future. New York: Guilford. (Paperback: $11.53)

Devitt, M. (1991). Realism and truth (2nd ed.). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. (Paperback: $27.95)

Kourany, J. A. (Ed., 1987). Scientific knowledge: Basic issues in the philosophy of science. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth. (Paperback: $78.95)

Kitcher, P., & Salmon, W. C. (Eds., 1989). Scientific explanation. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. (Hardback: ~$93.00)

Hempel, C. G. (2000). Selected philosophical essays. New York: Cambridge University Press. (Paperback: $27.99)

Popper, K. R. (1968). The logic of scientific discovery. New York: Harper & Row. (Original work published 1935) (Paperback: $13.27)

Popper, K. R. (1966). The open society and its enemies: Vol. 1. The spell of Plato. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. (Original work published 1945) (Paperback: $16.47)

Popper, K. R. (1966). The open society and its enemies: Vol. 2. The high tide of prophecy: Hegel, Marx, and the aftermath. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. (Original work published 1945) (Paperback: $16.98)

Popper, K. R. (1989). Conjectures and refutations: The growth of scientific knowledge. New York: Routledge. (Original work published 1963) (Paperback: $13.57)

Lakatos, I., & Musgrave, A. (Eds., 1970). Criticism and the growth of knowledge. New York: Cambridge University Press. (Paperback: $35.00)

Musgrave, A. (1993). Common sense, science and scepticism: A historical introduction to the theory of knowledge. New York: Cambridge University Press. (Paperback: $26.99)

Miller, D. (1994). Critical rationalism: A restatement and defense. Chicago: Open Court. (Paperback: $16.95)

Feyerabend, P. (1988). Against method (Rev. ed.). New York: Verso. (Original work published 1974) (Paperback: $20.00)

Kuhn, T. S. (1970). The structure of scientific revolutions (2nd ed.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Original work published 1962) (Paperback: $10.40)

Kuhn, T. S. (1985). The Copernican revolution: Planetary astronomy in the development of Western thought. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Original work published 1957) (Paperback: $13.45)

Lloyd, G. E. R. (1970). Early Greek science: Thales to Aristotle. New York: Norton. (Paperback: $11.40)

Grant, E. (1977). Physical science in the middle ages. New York: Cambridge University Press. (Original work published 1971) (Paperback: $20.99)

Debus, A. G. (1978). Man and nature in the Renaissance. New York: Cambridge University Press. (Paperback: $23.99)

Westfall, R. S. (1977). The construction of modern science: Mechanisms and mechanics. New York: Cambridge University Press. (Original work published 1971) (Paperback: $22.99)

Butterfield, H. (1957). The origins of modern science (Rev. ed.). New York: Macmillan. (Original work published 1949) (Paperback: $18.95)

Matthews, M. R. (Ed., 1989). The scientific background to modern philosophy: Selected readings. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett. (Paperback: $6.95)

Einstein, A., & Infeld, L. (1938). The evolution of physics: From early conceptions to relativity and quanta. New York: Simon & Schuster. (Paperback: $10.40)

Lightman, A., & Brawer, R. (1990). Origins: The lives and worlds of modern cosmologists. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Paperback: $11.53)

Watson, P. (2005). Ideas: A history of thought and invention, from fire to Freud. New York: HarperCollins. (Hardback: $19.77)

Merchant, C. (1983). The death of nature: Women, ecology and the scientific revolution. New York: Harper & Row. (Original work published 1980) (Paperback: $11.53)

Garry, A., & Pearsall, M. (Eds., 1989). Women, knowledge, and reality: Explorations in feminist philosophy. Boston: Unwin Hyman. (Paperback: $35.00)

Ihde, D., & Selinger, E. (Eds., 2003). Chasing technoscience: Matrix for materiality. Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press. (Paperback: $27.95)

Collins, R. (1998). The sociology of philosophies: A global theory of intellectual change. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Paperback: $27.95)

Grünbaum, A. (1984). The foundations of psychoanalysis: A philosophical critique. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. (Paperback: $24.95)

Gould, S. J. (1996). The mismeasure of man (Rev. ed.). New York: Norton. (Original work published 1981) (Paperback: $11.53)

Lewontin, R. C. (1991). Biology as ideology: The doctrine of DNA. New York: HarperCollins. (Paperback: $9.60)

Dawkins, R. (1989). The selfish gene (Rev. ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. (Original work published 1976) (Paperback: $10.85)

Wright, R. (1994). The moral animal: Evolutionary psychology and everyday life. New York: Random House. (Paperback: $10.85)

Buss, D. M. (1994). The evolution of desire: Strategies of human mating. New York: Basic. (Paperback: $11.90)

Maynard Smith, J. (1975). The theory of evolution. New York: Cambridge University Press. (Original work published 1958) (Paperback: $21.99)

Hull, D. L. (2000). Science and selection: Essays on biological evolution and the philosophy of science. New York: Cambridge University Press. (Paperback: $23.99)

Sober, E. (Ed., 1994). Conceptual issues in evolutionary biology (2nd ed.). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (Paperback: $36.69)

Descartes, R. (1986). Meditations on first philosophy, with selections from the objections and replies (J. Cottingham, Trans.). New York: Cambridge University Press. (Original work published 1641) (Paperback: $13.99)

Locke, J. (1975). An essay concerning human understanding. New York: Oxford University Press. (Original work published 1690) (Paperback: $8.80)

Berkeley, G. (1979). Three dialogues between Hylas and Philonous. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett. (Original work published 1713) (Paperback: $15.00)

Hume, D. (1977). An enquiry concerning human understanding. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett. (Original work published 1748) (Paperback: $15.00)

Kant, I. (1977). Prolegomena to any future metaphysics (P. Carus & J. W. Ellington, Trans.). Indianapolis, IN: Hackett. (Original work published 1783) (Paperback: $18.99)

Hussurl, E. (1960). Cartesian meditations: An introduction to phenomenology (D. Cairns, Trans.). Boston: Martinus Nijhoff. (Original work published 1931) (Paperback: $39.95)

Russell, B. (1993). Introduction to mathematical philosophy. New York: Dover. (Original work published 1919) (Paperback: $8.76)

Wittgenstein, L. (1969). On certainty (D. Paul & G. E. M. Anscombe, Trans.). New York: Harper & Row. (Paperback: $14.00)

Quine, W. V. (1986). Philosophy of logic (2nd ed.). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Original work published 1970) (Paperback: $17.50)

Jeffrey, R. C. (1991). Formal logic: Its scope and limits (3rd ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill. (Original work published 1967) (Paperback: ~$8.25)

Williamson, T. (1994). Vagueness. New York: Routledge. (Paperback: $33.98)

Morton, A. (1997). A guide through the theory of knowledge (2nd ed.). Malden, MA: Blackwell. (Original work published 1977) (Paperback: $28.95)

Putnam, H. (1975). Mind, language and reality: Philosophical papers, Vol. 2. New York: Cambridge University Press. (Paperback: $46.58)

Cummins, R. (1989). Meaning and mental representation. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (Paperback: $20.00)

Fodor, J. A. (1975). The language of thought. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Paperback: $21.50)

Fodor, J. A. (1981). Representations: Philosophical essays on the foundations of cognitive science. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (Paperback: $40.00)

Dennett, D. C. (1984). Elbow room: The varieties of free will worth wanting. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (Paperback: $20.00)

Dennett, D. C. (1981). Brainstorms: Philosophical essays on mind and psychology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (Original work published 1978) (Paperback: $28.00)

Dennett, D. C. (1987). The intentional stance. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (Paperback: $30.00)

Searle, J. R. (1983). Intentionality: An essay in the philosophy of mind. New York: Cambridge University Press. (Paperback: $32.99)

Searle, J. R. (1992). The rediscovery of the mind. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (Paperback: $25.00)

Searle, J. R. (2002). Consciousness and language. New York: Cambridge University Press. (Paperback: $28.99)

 

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