Contents
Part I: Fundamental Issues
1. Worldviews
2. Truth
3. Empirical Facts and Philosophical/Conceptual Facts
4. Confirming and Disconfirming Evidence and Reasoning
5. The Quine-Duhem Thesis and Implications for Scientific Method
6. Philosophical Interlude: Problems and Puzzles of Induction
7. Falsifiability
8. Instrumentalism and Realism
Part II: The Transition from the Aristotelian Worldview to the Newtonian Worldview
9. The Structure of the Universe on the Aristotelian Worldview
10. The Preface to Ptolemy’s Almagest: The Earth as Spherical, Stationary, and at the Center of the Universe
11. Astronomical Data: The Empirical Facts
12. Astronomical Data: The Philosophical/Conceptual Facts
13. The Ptolemaic System
14. The Copernican System
15. The Tychonic System
16. Kepler’s System
17. Galileo and the Evidence from the Telescope
18. A Summary of Problems Facing the Aristotelian Worldview
19. Philosophical and Conceptual Connections in the Development of the New Science
20. Overview of the New Science and the Newtonian Worldview
21. Philosophical Interlude: What is a Scientific Law?
22. The Development of the Newtonian Worldview, 1700-1900
Part III: Recent Developments in Science and Worldviews
23. The Special Theory of Relativity
24. The General Theory of Relativity
25. Overview of the Empirical Facts, Mathematics, and Interpretations of Quantum Theory
26. Quantum Theory and Locality: EPR, Bell’s Theorem, and the Aspect Experiments
27. Overview of the Theory of Evolution
28. Philosophical and Conceptual Implications of Evolution
29. Worldviews: Concluding Thoughts

Includes bibliographical references and index.