Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-272) and index.
1. "The Sins of the Fathers ... ": Positivist Origins of Postpositivist Relativisms -- 2. Demystifying Underdetermination -- 3. Empirical Equivalence and Underdetermination / Larry Laudan and Jarrett Leplin -- 4. A Problem-Solving Approach to Scientific Progress -- 5. For Method: Answering the Relativist Critique of Methodology of Kuhn and Feyerabend -- 6. Reconciling Progress and Loss -- 7. Progress or Rationality? The Prospects for Normative Naturalism -- 8. The Rational Weight of the Scientific Past: Forging Fundamental Change in a Conservative Discipline -- 9. Normative Naturalism: Replies to Friendly Critics -- 10. The Pseudo-Science of Science? -- 11. The Demise of the Demarcation Problem -- 12. Science at the Bar -- Causes for Concern -- 13. Dominance and the Disunity of Method: Solving the Problems of Innovation and Consensus / Larry Laudan and Rachel Laudan.