This user-friendly text covers key issues in the philosophy of science in an accessible and philosophically serious way. It will prove valuable to students studying philosophy of science as well as science students.

Prize-winning author Alex Rosenberg explores the philosophical problems that science raises by its very nature and method. He skilfully demonstrates that scientific explanation, laws, causation, theory, models, evidence, reductionism, probability, teleology, realism and instrumentalism actually pose the same questions that Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Hume, Kant and their successors have grappled with for centuries.

Alexander Rosenberg is a Professor of Philosophy in the University of Georgia and a leading philosopher of science in the world. He has written ten books including The Structure of Biological Science and Economics - Mathematical Politics or Science of Dimishing Returns. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Science foundation. In 1993, he won the Lakatos Prize in the Philosophy of Science.