Introduction

science in its social setting

1-17

The present state of the philosophy of science

18-32

Was Wittgenstein really necessary?

33-44

Epistemology as an aid to science

45-54

Externalism

Mark Rowlands

55-67

The autonomy of science

68-76

The legitimation of science

77-84

Sociologism in philosophy of science

85-103

Revolutions in science, occasional or permanent?

104-118

Cultural lag in science

119-131

Storage and communication of knowledge

132-141

The economics of scientific publications

142-155

Revising the referee system

156-163

Scientific schools and their success

164-191

Genius in science

Michael Polanyi

192-209

Scientists as sleepwalkers

210-222

The logic of scientific inquiry

223-238

The choice of scientific problems

239-252

Between metaphysics and methodology

253-261

Research project

262-272

The methodology of research projects

a sketch

273-282

Continuity and discontinuity in the history of science

283-299

Three views of the renaissance of science

300-320

On explaining the trial of galileo

321-351

The origins of the royal society

352-371

The ideological import of Newton

372-387

Sir John Herschel's philosophy of success

388-420

What makes for a scientific Golden age?

421-435

Max Weber's scientific religion

436-443

On pursuing the unattainable

444-456

Faith has nothing to do with rationality

457-464

Rationality and the tu quoque argument

465-476

Technocracy and scientific progress

477-490

Standards to live by

491-501