This book on the philosophy of science in now available from
Oxford
University Press .
Alternative sources are
Amazon.com and
Amazon.co.uk .
Its treatment is at the serious end of popular science.
Reviews
By Brian Rotman on page 11 of the 25 June 2004 issue of the
Times Literary Supplement,
by subscription.
By Roger Newton, in the 4 July 2004 issue of Physics Today, by subscription.
By Robert Cahn, on page 59 of the October 2004 issue of Materials Today.
Author's Commentary
The following Commentary was updated on 8 June 2006.
Please let me know about any further errors or other relevant matters.
Contents
Chapter 1 Perception and language
Chapter 2
Theories of the mind
Chapter 3 Arithmetic
Chapter 4 How
hard can problems get?
Chapter 5 Pure mathematics
Chapter
6 Mechanics and astronomy
Chapter 7 Probability and quantum
theory
Chapter 8 Is evolution a theory?
Chapter 9 Against reductionism
Chapter 10 Some final
thoughts