What I Do Not Believe, and Other Essays (Synthese Library)

Introduction

Matthew D. Lund

Part I. Philosophy of Science

A Picture Theory of Theory-Meaning

On Elementary Particle Theory

Some Philosophical Aspects of Contemporary Cosmologies

Stability Proofs and Consistency Proofs: A Loose Analogy

Observation and Explanation: A Guide to Philosophy of Science

Part II. History of Science

Leverrier: The Zenith and Nadir of Newtonian Mechanics

The Contributions of Other Disciplines to 19th Century Physics

The Trial of Galileo

Part III General Philosophy

On Being in Two Places at Once

Copernicus' Role in Kant's Revolution

It's Actual, so It's Possible

On Having the Same Visual Experiences

Mental Events Yet Again: Retrospect on Some Old Arguments

Part IV Logic

Imagining the Impossible

On the Impossibility of Any Future Metaphysics

Good Inductive Reasons

A Budget of Cross-Type Inferences, or Invention is the Mother of Necessity

The Irrelevance of History of Science to Philosophy of Science

The Idea of a Logic of Discovery

Part V. Religion

The Agnostic's Dilemma

What I Don't Believe

Part VI. The Theory of Flight

Introduction

Edward MacKinnon, S.J.

Lecture One: The Discovery of Air

Lecture Two: The Shape of an Idea

Lecture Three: The Idea of a Shape