The Philosophy of Science : A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy)

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Summary: Helpful text book
Review: I used this book in an introduction to philosophy of science course I took, along with an anthology of papers. The papers were hard to understand without this book. They were filled with a lot of jargon, and labels for different theories. This book helped me understand the labels, but it also got behind them to what the real issues between competing philosophies of science are, and how their arguments worked. It was not easy going but the effort to follow Rosenberg's presentation was worth it.

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Summary: Why philosphy matters to science
Review: The great thing about this book, unlike most of the others, is that is shows how the problems of methodology and interpretation of scientific theories turn out to be the same deep problems philosophers have been wrestling with since the Greeks. It gives you all the definitions of the buzz-words in philosophy of science, but goes beyond them to tell you what's really up for grabs in debates about the nature of science, objectivity, explanation, and reality. And it ends with a great chapter on Kuhn and Quine.

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Summary: Philosophy of science is not for bigheaded science folks.
Review: This is a wonderful text for those of you who haven't been made bigheaded yet by actually studying science. Science majors will probably be annoyed by "science" as presented in this book.