1. From the Current Trends in Philosophy of Science to the Prospects for the Near Future

     Wenceslao J. Gonzalez

               Part I Philosophy of Medicine and Climate Change

     2. Philosophy of Science Meets Medicine (again): a Clearer-sighted View of the Virtues of Blinding and of Tests for Blinding in Clinical Trials

     John Worrall

     3. Environmental Decision-making under Uncertainty

     Joe Roussos, Richard Bradley, and Roman Frigg

               Part II Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence and the Internet

     4. Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy of Science from the 1990s to 2020

     Donald Gillies and Marco Gillies

     5. Whatever Happened to the Logic of Discovery? From Transparent Logic to Alien Reasoning

     Thomas Nickles

     6. Scientific Side of the Future of the Internet as a Complex System. The Role of Prediction and Prescription of Applied Sciences

     Wenceslao J. Gonzalez

               Part III New Analyses of Probability and the Use of Mathematics in Practice

     7. From Logical to Probabilistic Empiricism: Arguments for Pluralism

     Maria Carla Galavotti

     8. Instrumental Realism -- A New Start for Mathematics and Scientific Practice

     Ladislav Kvasz

               Part IV Scientific Progress Revisited

     9. Scientific Progress and the Search for Truth

     Philip Kitcher

     10. The Logic of Qualitative Progress in Nomic, Design, and Explicative Research

     Theo Kuipers

               Part V Scientific Realism and the Instrumentalist Alternative

     11. Explicating Inference to the Best Explanation

     Ilkka Niiniluoto

     12. Re-inflating the Realism-Instrumentalism Controversy

     Stathis Psillos

 Index of Names

Subject Index