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Books on the Philosophy of Science
The best book on the philosophy of science that I have come across is Nola and Sankey (2007). The others are almost dismissive of probability/the Bayesian methodology, in other words, they naively dismiss what science is all about, e and the only effective unifying framework. Baring that in mind, the best of the rest is Ladyman (2001).
AUDI, Robert (editor), 1999. The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy , 2nd Edition. Cambridge University Press.
CHALMERS, A. F., 1999. What is This Thing Called Science? Third ed. Buckingham: Open University Press.
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 .
HOWSON, Colin, and Peter URBACH, 2005. Scientific Reasoning: The Bayesian Approach . Third ed. Open Court Publishing Company.
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, 2002. Understanding Philosophy of Science . London: Routledge.
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 .
NOLA, Robert, and Howard SANKEY, 2007. Theories of Scientific Method. Philosophy and Science . Montreal, QC: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
O'HEAR, Anthony, 1989. An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science . Oxford: Oxford University Press.
POPPER, Karl R., Objective Knowledge .
POPPER, Karl, Conjectures and Refutations .
POPPER, Karl, The Logic of Scientific Discovery .
ROSENBERG, Alex, 2005. Philosophy of Science: A Contemporary Introduction . Second ed. Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy. New York: Routledge.
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