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a posteriori justification, 6.2
abstraction, 3.3
adaptation, 5.3, 9.1
African Studies, 7.3
age, in geology, 2.2
agent, free, 3.4
ambiguity, 3.2
analysis, 3.3
analytic statement, 3.0
analytic statements, 4.3
Ancien Régime, 1.2, 1.3
angle, 3.1
Antarctica, 2.2
anthropology, 5.5, 5.7
anti-evolution law, 4.4
apprenticeship, 3.3
Aristotle, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 3.4
arithmetic, 3.1
arts, 1.2
astrology, 2.2
astronomy, 1.2, 2.2
atheist, 5.6, 10.1
     militant, 9.1
atom, 3.4
Augustine, 9.3
authority, 1.4
     textual, 1.3
axiom, 2.1, 3.0

Bacon, Francis, 1.2, 2.1, 9.3
Bayes' theorem, 4.3
beauty, 3.2
behaviorism, 3.4
Bible, 9.3
Big Bang, 2.2
biology, 1.2, 3.4
Boole, George, 4.3
botany, 2.2, 3.1
Boyle's Free Enquiry, 1.4
Boyle, Robert, 1.2, 1.4, 9.3
brain science, 3.4
branding, 1.4, 5.5, 7.1
Bronowski, Jacob, 8.2
Bryan, William Jennings, 9.2

calculus, 3.1
Cambridge University, 4.1
camouflage, 5.4
capitalist, 7.1, 8.2
Carnap, Rudolph, 4.3, 6.1
Carnegie, Andrew, 5.7
cause
     efficient, 1.3, 3.4
     final, 1.3, 3.4
     formal, 3.4
     material, 3.4
cesium, 3.1
Chalmers, Alan, 4.5
charity, 2.1
chemistry, 1.2
China, 9.4
Christianity, 10.1
Clarity, 1.4, 3.0
classification, 2.2, 3.1
climate history, 2.2
cogito ergo sum, 3.0
cognition, 7.2
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1.4
Collingwood, R.G., 1.2
common-sense, 3.3
communication, 3.0, 3.3
communism, 8.2
compassion, 3.2
complexity, 5.4
computer modeling, 5.2
Comte, Auguste, 1.2, 4.2
concordist, 9.3
Condorcet, Nicholas de, 5.7
consensibility, 3.1
consensuality, 3.1
contemplative, 1.2, 1.3
contingent creation, 9.4
corroboration, 4.3
Coulson, C.A., 10.2
counter-example, 2.1
Crab Nebula, 2.2
Creation Science, 4.4
Creator, 1.3, 2.3
Cult of Newton, 4.2

Darwin Erasmus, 5.7
Darwin, Charles, 5.2
Darwinian explanation, 5.3
Darwinism, 5.1
Dawkins, Richard, 1.3, 3.3, 9.1
deduction, 6.1
deductive logic, 2.1
Deductivism, 4.3
degrees of arc, 3.1
Deism, 10.1
demarcation, 4.3
     and creationism, 4.4
     and scientism, 4.5
     failure of, 4.3
demiurge, 1.3
Dennett, Daniel, 9.1
denotation, 7.1
Descartes, René, 3.0, 5.1
design, 3.4
determinism, 2.2
dice, 2.2
dictionary, Johnson's, 1.2
Diderot, Denis, 1.2, 1.3
Dirac, Paul, 2.2
discourse, 7.2
diversity, 5.7
DNA, 2.2
Doppler shift, 2.2
Dover, Pennsylvania, 4.4
drama, 3.2
dualism, 6.1
Duhem, Pierre, 4.3

economic growth, 8.3
economics, 2.3
econophysics, 6.2
Einstein, Albert, 2.2
elementary particles, 10.2
Eliot, George, 4.2
Ellul, Jacques, 8.2
emergence, 10.2
Encyclopédie, 1.2, 1.3
energy, 8.3
Enfantin, Barthélemy-Prosper, 4.2
engineering, 8.1
Enlightenment, 1.1, 1.4
environment, 8.3
epistemology, 1.4
equation, 2.2
ethics, 1.2, 10.1
ethnocentric, 7.3
etymology, 1.2
eugenics, 5.7
     Germany, 5.7
Euro-centrism, 7.1
evidence, 1.3
     forensic, 2.2
evolution, 5.2
     human, 5.5
experiment, 2.1
     Crucial, 2.1, 4.3
     laboratory, 3.3
experimental, 1.4

fact, 9.1
faith, 9.4, 10.3
Fall, doctrine of, 5.4
false-advertising, 1.4
falsification, 5.4, 10.3
     of data, 9.4
Falsificationism, 4.3
Faraday, Michael, 2.0, 8.1
Fecundity, 4.3
Feyerabend, Paul, 4.3
field skill, 3.1
final cause, 1.3
Forms, 1.3
fossil, 3.3
fossil-fuel, 8.3
fraud, scientific, 9.4
Frege, Friedrich, 4.3
function, 3.4
fundamentalism, 5.6
fusion, 8.3

galaxy, 2.2
Galileo, 1.3, 8.1, 9.3
gall-wasp, 5.7
Galton, Francis, 5.7
Geisteswissenschaft, 7.2
Genesis, 9.3
geology, 2.2
geometry, 3.1
Gosse, Philip, 9.5
Gould, Stephen Jay, 9.1, 9.2
grand narrative, 7.1
gravity, 1.3, 3.3

Habermas, Jurgen, 7.3
harmony, 3.2
Harris, Sam, 9.1
Hayek, F. A., 4.2
health, 8.3
heavens, 2.2
Heisenberg, Werner, 2.2
heliocentric, 9.3
Hempel, Carl, 4.3
hermeneutics, 7.2, 7.4
hexagon, 3.1
higher criticism, 9.3
historiography, 1.2
history, 1.1, 2.3
     as science, 1.2
     lacking reproducibility, 2.3
     laws of, 1.2, 4.2
     of science, 4.1
     popular, 1.2
     scientific, 1.2
Hitchens, Christopher, 9.1
Hofstadter, Richard, 5.7
Holmes, Oliver Wendel, 5.7
honesty, 9.4
Hookyaas, R, 9.4
hunter gatherer, 9.1
Huxley, T.H., 9.2
hypotheses, 1.3, 2.2
     auxiliary, 4.3
     testing, 4.3

ice cores, 2.2
ID movement, 4.4, 5.6
ideology, 5.7
immutability, 1.3
incarnation, 10.1
index, 3.3
Induction, 2.1, 4.3
industrial complex, 7.3
integrity, 9.4
intentionality, 3.4, 9.1
interweaving analogy, 3.3, 10.2
introspection, 3.4
irreproducible, 2.2

Jaki, Stanley, 9.4
Johnson, Philip, 5.6
Johnson, Samuel, 1.2
journalism, 3.2
jurisprudence, 2.3, 3.3
justice, 3.2, 3.3
justification, a posteriori, 6.2

Kepler, 1.3
kilogram, 3.1
King James, 2.3
Kingsley, Charles, 9.5
Kinsey, Alfred, 5.7
knowledge, 1.2
     facets, 10.2
Kuhn, Thomas, 4.3

laissez-faire, 5.7
Lakatos, Imre, 4.3
Lamark, Jean-Baptiste, 5.7
Lamarkianism, 5.3, 5.7
law, 2.1, 3.3
law of nature, 2.3, 10.1
Law of Three Stages, 4.2
law-giver, 2.3
legislation, 3.3
legitimation, 7.1, 7.4
length, 3.1
levels of description, 10.2
levitation, 9.5
Lewontin, Richard, 9.1
light, 1.3
     corpuscular theory, 1.3
     refraction, 2.1
limits of science, 6.1
literature, 1.1
Logical empiricism, 4.3, 7.2
Logical Positivism, 4.3
Luddite, 8.2
Lyotard, Jean-François, 7.1

Macaulay
     History of England, 1.2
     on induction, 2.1
MacKay, Donald, 3.3
macroscopic, 2.2
magnetic field, 8.3
man's estate, 2.1
manipulation, 2.1
Marx, Karl, 8.2
Marxist, 7.3
mass, 3.1
materialism, 5.1
mathematical science, 1.3
mathematics, 3.1
matter, 1.3
Maxwell Equations, 2.0
measurement, 3.1, 3.3
mechanical, 1.4
mechanical arts, 1.2
mechanical science, 1.3
mechanism, 1.3
medieval, 1.3
meme, 9.1
mental habitat, 1.1
Mermin, David, 7.1
metadiscourse, 7.1
metanarrative, 7.1, 7.4
metaphysics, 1.2, 5.4
     of scientism, 5.4, 5.6
Mill's Canons, 4.3
Mill, John Stuart, 4.2
Miller, Kenneth, 5.6
miracle, 9.3, 10.1
mirror of nature, 7.2
model, 3.3
monetarist experiment, 2.3
monism, 8.2
Monod, Jacques, 3.4
monopoly, 7.3
morality, 10.1
multicultural, 7.1
music, 3.2

Napoleon, 2.2
narrative, 7.1, 7.2
National Academy, 5.6
natural history, 5.2
natural law, 5.2
natural philosophy, 4.1
natural science, 1.2, 1.4
natural selection, 5.2, 5.7
naturalism
     scientific, 5.6
nature, 1.3
     definition, 1.4
     functional definition, 1.4
     history of, 2.2
     personified, 1.3
     study of, 1.4, 4.1
Naturwissenschaft, 7.2
Nazism, 5.7
New Christianity, 4.2
Newton, Isaac, 1.3
NOMA, 9.2
normal science, 4.3, 7.2
nothing buttery, 3.3
notion, Vulgarly Received, 1.4
nuclear energy, 8.3

objectivist, 7.3
objectivity, 8.1
observation, 1.3
observer, 2.2
ocean sediments, 2.2
Omphalos, 9.5
opinion poll, 3.2
Organon, New, 2.1
Orr, H. Allen, 9.1
orthodoxy, 1.1

paradigm, 4.3
Paries, Ignace Gaston, 1.3
Pascal, Blaize, 9.1
Pasteur, Louis, 8.3
peer review, 9.4
personality, 3.4, 10.1
perspectivist, 7.1, 7.3
phenomenalism, 6.1
phenomenology, 7.3
philosophe, 1.2, 5.7
philosophy, 1.1, 6.2
     of science, 4.1
physicalist, 5.6, 6.1
physics, 1.2
physiology, 3.1
Pinker, Steven, 9.1
planet, 3.3
platinum, 3.1
Platonic, 1.3
Polanyi, Michael, 9.1
Political Science, 2.3, 4.5
Popper, Karl, 4.3
Positivism, 1.2, 4.2
     Logical, 1.2, 3.0, 4.3, 6.0
Postman, Neil, 8.2
postmodernism, 7.1
pragmatist, 6.2, 7.2
Prime Mover, 1.3
Principia Mathematica, 1.3, 3.1, 3.3, 5.1
prism, 2.1
probability, 2.2
professionalism, 1.2
progressive, 4.3
Provine, William, 5.6
psychology, 3.4
     and religion, 9.1
     evolutionary, 9.1
purpose, 3.4

quantum mechanics, 2.2, 3.3
Quine, W. V., 4.3

radioactive dating, 2.2
randomness, 2.2
rationality, 9.4
Raven Paradox, 4.3
realism, 6.2
reductionism, 1.3, 3.3
     heirarchical, 3.3
     methodological, 3.3
     ontological, 3.3
referee, 9.4
relief, 2.1
religion, 1.2, 9.1
     evil, 9.1
Religion of Humanity, 4.2
reproducibility, 1.4, 2.0
     limitations of, 2.3
     limits of, 2.2
Research Program, 4.3
resurrection, 9.1
Romantics, 8.2
Royal Institution, 2.0
Royal Society, 1.2, 1.3, 9.3
Ruse, Michael, 3.3, 5.6
Russell, Bertrand, 4.3

Saint-Simon, Henri, 4.2
Saint-Simonianism, 4.2
salon, 7.2
scholastic, 1.3, 2.1
Schroedinger, Erwin, 2.2
science
     apprenticeship, 9.4
     Baconian, 2.2
     characteristics, 1.4, 6.1
     definition, 1.2
     empirical, 9.4
     ethics, 9.5
     experimental, 1.3
     explanation, 1.3
     fraud, 9.4
     laboratory, 3.1
     limits of, 2.2, 6.1
     meaning, 1.2
     method, 1.4, 2.1
     observational, 2.2
     socially constructed, 7.1
     usage, 1.2
Science Studies, 2.1, 2.3
science wars, 7.1
science-stopper, 6.2
sciences, new, 1.2
scientific empiricism, 6.1
scientific fundamentalist, 7.1
scientific naturalism, 5.6
Scientific Revolution, 1.3, 1.4
scientism, 1.1
     assessed, 4.2
     coined, 4.2
     definition, 1.1
     foundational, 6.2
     metaphysics, 5.6
     religious, 1.1, 4.2, 5.7
     warrant, 6.0
scientist, 1.4
Scopes trial, 4.4
Searle, John, 1.2
second, 3.1
set theory, 3.1
sexist, 7.1
Shannon, Claude, 4.3
Shapespeare, 6.2
Shapin, Steven, 1.3
Smithsonian Institution, 5.5
Social Darwinism, 5.7
Social Physics, 4.2
social science, 4.1
Sociobiology, 5.7, 9.1
sociology, 4.2
Sociology of Science, 4.3
Sokal, Alan, 7.1
solar system, 2.2
Sophie's choice, 9.1
sovereignty, 10.1
spandrel, 9.1
species, 5.2
specimen, breeding, 2.2
spectrum of light, 1.3, 2.1
Spencer, Herbert, 5.7
sport, science of, 6.2
stem cells, 9.5
string theory, 10.2
suffering, 10.1
supernova, 2.2
supersymmetry, 10.2
syllogism, 2.1
symmetry, methodological, 7.1

technological fix, 8.3
technological imperative, 1.1, 8.2
technology, 1.1, 2.1, 8.1
Technopoly, 8.2
telegraph, 8.1
teleology, 1.3, 1.4, 3.4
telescope, 2.2, 8.1
terminology, 1.2
textbook, 9.2
textual criticism, 9.3
Thagard, Paul, 6.2
theist, 5.6
theodicy, 10.1
theology, liberal, 9.3
theory laden, 4.3
Thompson, William, 8.1
time, 3.1
tokamak, 8.3
totalizing, 7.3, 7.4
two books, 9.3

uncertainty principle, 2.2, 3.3
under-determination, 4.3
units, 3.1
unity, 6.2
universe, expanding, 2.2
university, 1.1
unscientific, 1.2
Ussher, Bishop, 5.4

value, 3.2
value judgement, 3.2, 8.1
victim-hood, 7.3
Vienna Circle, 4.3, 6.1
virtuoso, 9.3
Voltaire, 1.2

Wallace, Alfred Russel, 5.7
warfare, 9.3, 9.5
warrant, 6.0, 10.3
way of knowing, 7.2
web of science, 3.3
Weinberg, Steven, 9.1
Whig History, 1.2
White, Andrew Dickson, 9.2, 9.3
Whitehead, Alfred North, 4.3, 9.4
Wilson, Edward O, 5.7
Womens' Studies, 7.3
Wordsworth, William, 1.4
world-view, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 7.3

Ziman, John, 3.1
Zodiac, 3.1
zoology, 2.2

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