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Table of Contents
Cover
Table of Contents
Praise for Worldviews
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Fundamental Issues
Chapter One Worldviews
Aristotle’s Beliefs and the Aristotelian Worldview
The Newtonian Worldview
Concluding Remarks
Chapter Two Truth
Preliminary Issues
Clarifying the Question
Correspondence Theories of Truth
Coherence Theories of Truth
Problems/Puzzles about Correspondence Theories of Truth
Problems/Puzzles for Coherence Theories of Truth
Philosophical Reflections: Descartes and the Cogito
Concluding Remarks
Chapter Three Empirical Facts and Philosophical/Conceptual Facts
Preliminary Observations
A Note on Terminology
Concluding Remarks
Chapter Four Confirming and Disconfirming Evidence and Reasoning
Confirmation Reasoning
Disconfirmation Reasoning
Inductive and Deductive Reasoning
Concluding Remarks
Chapter Five The Quine–Duhem Thesis and Implications for Scientific Method
The Quine–Duhem Thesis
Implications for Scientific Method
Concluding Remarks
Chapter Six Philosophical Interlude: Problems and Puzzles of Induction
Hume’s Problem of Induction
Hempel’s Raven Paradox
Goodman’s Gruesome Problem
Concluding Remarks
Chapter Seven Falsifiability
Basic Ideas
Complicating Factors
Concluding Remarks
Chapter Eight Instrumentalism and Realism
Prediction and Explanation
Concluding Remarks
Part II: The Transition from the Aristotelian Worldview to the Newtonian Worldview
Chapter Nine The Structure of the Universe on the Aristotelian Worldview
The Physical Structure of the Universe
Conceptual Beliefs about the Universe
Concluding Remarks
Chapter Ten The Preface to Ptolemy’s Almagest: The Earth as Spherical, Stationary, and at the Center of the Universe
The Earth as Spherical
The Earth as Stationary
The Earth as the Center of the Universe
Concluding Remarks
Chapter Eleven Astronomical Data: The Empirical Facts
The Movement of the Stars
The Movement of the Sun
The Movement of the Moon
The Movement of the Planets
Concluding Remarks
Chapter Twelve Astronomical Data: The Philosophical/Conceptual Facts
A Scientific Problem with the Motion of the Heavenly Bodies
Could This Account be Used for a Moving Earth?
Concluding Remarks
Chapter Thirteen The Ptolemaic System
Background Information
A Brief Description of the Components of Ptolemy’s Treatment of Mars
The Rationale behind These Components
Concluding Remarks
Chapter Fourteen The Copernican System
Background Information
Overview of the Copernican Sys ............

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