Science, Philosophy of (Britannica article)

Toulmin, Stephen E. "Science, Philosophy of." Encyclopaedia Britannica: Macropaedia. 1974.

Handles debate among Mechanists, Vitalists, Idealists, and others involved in the struggle for how educated people would model the world (see esp. 379-81). Includes an extensive, briefly annotated, biblio. (393). See in this Category of the Wiki, R. Descartes; T. Hobbes; D. Hofstadter; J. R. Munson and R. C. York; D. S. Robinson; C. Sagan, "Life"; J. C. J. Smart; B. de Spinoza; R. A. Watson; R. S. Westfall.