Chapter 1 On the Analytic and the Synthetic

Chapter 2 Solutions to the Paradoxes of Confirmation, Goodman’s Paradox, and Two New Theories of Confirmation

Chapter 3 Hempel on Inductive Shortcomings in Craigian Method

Chapter 4 Confirmation Logic and Its Applications

Chapter 5 Popper’s Logical Analysis of Basic Statements

Chapter 6 The Evolution of Science: Theoretic Recombination as a Selection Process

Chapter 7 Eliminative Materialism and Connectionism

Chapter 8 Problem Domain, Taxonomy, and Comparativity in Histories of Science — With a Case Study in the Comparative History of ‘Optics’

Chapter 9 From One Gnomon to Two Gnomons: A Methodological Study of the Method of Double Differences

Chapter 10 Chinese Mathematics at the Turn of the 19th Century: Jiao Xun, Wang Lai and Li Rui

Chapter 11 Bao Qi-Shou 保其壽 and His Polyhedral Hun Yuan Tu 渾圓圖

Chapter 13 Local Contexts, Strategies and Sinicization: A Case Study of the Sinicization Formulation in the Social Sciences of Taiwan (1970s–1980s)