This thoroughly updated second edition guides readers through the central concepts and debates in the philosophy of science.
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Kent W. Staley is Professor of Philosophy at Saint Louis University. He is the author of 'The Evidence for the Top Quark: Objectivity and Bias in Collaborative Experimentation' (Cambridge, 2004).
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