38 INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE 



It will be the task of the following pages to illustrate the 

 main types of problem which constitute the field of the 

 philosophy of science. For convenience the treatment will 

 be divided into three parts corresponding to the three prob- 

 lems. In connection with each problem the attempt will be 

 made to indicate its essential character, and to discuss some 

 of the most typical of the answers which have been sug- 

 gested in recent literature. Because of the importance of 

 method, problems of the logic of science will be examined 

 first. This will prepare the ground for the consideration 

 of those logico-metaphysical problems having to do with 

 the analysis of the basic concepts and presuppositions. Spec- 

 ulative problems, resting as they do upon both logical and 

 metaphysical problems, will be examined last. 



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Robt. Flint, Philosophy as Scientia Scientiarum (London: Black- 

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 F. R. Tennant, Philosophy of the Sciences (Cambridge: Cambridge 



University, 1932). 

 C. D. Broad, Scientific Thought (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 



1923), introd. 

 A. D. Ritchie, Scientific Method (London: Kegan Paul, 1923), 



Chaps. I, VII. 

 Morris Cohen, Reason and Nature (New York: Harcourt, Rrace, 



1931), Book I, Chap. IV. 

 E. W. Hobson, Domain of Natural Science (New York: Macmillan, 



1923), Chap. III. 

 J. A.. Thomson, Introduction to Science (New York: Holt, 1911), 



Chap. V. 

 A. C. Benjamin, The Logical Structure of Science (London: Kegan 



Paul, 1936), Chap. I. 



