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Books on the Philosophy of Science
Recommended: Ladyman (2001)
AUDI, Robert (editor), 1999. The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy , 2nd Edition. Cambridge University Press.
CHALMERS, A. F., What is this thing called Science?
CLUGSTON, M. J., 2004. The New Penguin Dictionary of Science
CURD, Martin and J. A. COVER, 1998. Philosophy of Science : the central issues
GOODMAN, Nelson, 1983. Fact fiction and forecast .
HULL, David L., 1988. Science as a Process: An Evolutionary Account of the Social and Conceptual Development of Science
HUME, David, A Treatise of Human Nature .
KUHN, Thomas S., The Structure of Scientific Revolutions .
LADYMAN, James, 2001. Understanding Philosophy of Science .
MELLOR, D. H. (Edited by), 1980.Science, Belief & Behaviour: Essays in honour of R.B. Braithwaite .
NEWTON-SMITH, W. H. (Edited by), A Companion to the Philosophy of Science .
O'HEAR, Anthony, 1989. An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science .
POPPER, Karl R., Objective Knowledge .
POPPER, Karl, Conjectures and Refutations .
POPPER, Karl, The Logic of Scientific Discovery .
RUSSELL, Bertrand, 1948. Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits .
Useful for postmodernist baloney detection:
Intellectual Impostures by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont
Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science by Paul R. Gross and Norman Levitt