Introduction

1-5

The sources of modern methodology

two models of change

Larry Laudan

6-19

A revisionist note on the methodological significance of Galilean mechanics

20-26

The clock metaphor and hypotheses

the impact of Descartes on English methodological thought, 1650–1670

27-58

John Locke on hypotheses

placing the essay in the "scientific tradition"

59-71

Hume (and Hacking) on induction

72-85

Thomas Reid and the Newtonian turn of British methodological thought

86-110

The epistemology of light

some methodological issues in the subtle fluids debate

111-140

Towards a reassessment of Comte's "Méthode positive"

141-162

William Whewell on the consilience of inductions

163-180

Why was the logic of discovery abandoned?

181-191

A note on induction and probability in the 19th century

192-201

Ernst Mach's opposition to atomism

202-225

Peirce and the trivialization of the self-corrective thesis

226-251