One of the pathways by which the scientific community confirms the validity of a new scientific discovery is by repeating the research that produced it. When a

This volume contains the contributed papers of invitees to SEMS 2012 who have also given talks at the conference. The invitees are experts in philosophy of scie

This book shows how science works, fails to work, or pretends to work, by looking at examples from such diverse fields as physics, biomedicine, psychology, and

String theory has played a highly influential role in theoretical physics for nearly three decades and has substantially altered our view of the elementary buil

As Aristotle stated, scientific explanation is based on deductive argument-yet, Wesley C. Salmon points out, not all deductive arguments are qualified explanati