Introductions to the General Philosophy of Science

• Chalmers, Alan F. (1999). What Is This Thing Called Science? 3rd ed. St. Lucia: University of Queensland.
• Okasha, Samir. (2002). Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Godfrey-Smith, Peter., and Peter. Godfrey-Smith. 2003. Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Hoyningen-Huene, P. (2013). Systematicity: The Nature of Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Bird, A., & Ladyman, J. (2011). Arguing about science. London: Routledge. (A reader with classic texts from the philosophy of science).
• Curd, Martin, Jan A Cover, and Chris Pincock. 2013. Philosophy of Science : The Central Issues. 2nd ed. New York: W.W. Norton. (A reader with classic texts from the philosophy of science).

Introductions to the History of Science

• Bowler, P. J., & Morus, I. R. (2005). Making modern science: A historical survey. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Collins, H. M., & Pinch, T. (1998). The golem: What everyone should know about science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Books on Science and Society

• Feyerabend, P. K. (1978). Science in a free society. London: Verso.Laudan, Larry. (1984). Science and Values : The Aims of Science and Their Role in Scientific Debate. Berkeley: University of California Press.
• Longino, Helen E. (1990). Science as Social Knowledge : Values and Objectivity in Scientific Inquiry. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
• Kitcher, Philip. (2001). Science, Truth, and Democracy. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press.
• Machamer, Peter, and Gereon Wolters, ed. (2004). Science, Values, and Objectivity. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.
• Douglas, Heather. (2009). Science, Policy, and the Value-Free Ideal. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.
• Oreskes, Naomi., and Erik M Conway. (2010). Merchants of Doubt : How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming. New York: Bloomsbury Press.

Links & Goodies

• Naomi Oreskes on why to trust science.
• John Oliver on science communication.
• Nancy Cartwright, Thomas Uebel, and Barry Smith discuss Logical Empiricism.
• Heather Douglas on the moral responsability of scientists.
• Karl Popper discusses critical rationalism (in German).
• Paul Feyerbend on many different topics (in German).
• Paul Hoyningen-Huene’s lecture: Was ist Wissenschaft? (in German).