This book has been under development for about 10 years. During this time my understanding of the subject developed and extended to include too much material to be publishable as a unit. My intention is to break it up into parts.
Here, are recent draft chapters that have been used for the past few years, with some success, as the text for an undergraduate course of the same name.
(01)Introduction
(02)Number
and System
(03)Reductions and Structures
(04)Philosophy and Information
(05)Early Philosophy
(06)Plato's Vision of Scientific
Reality
(07)Astronomical Data
Reduction
(08)Galileo and Experiment
(09)Galileo and the Church
(10)Descartes Method
(11)Newton: Science Beyond
Philosophy
(12)The Neitzschean Critique
(13)The Postmodern Critique