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