Critical Appraisal of Physical Science as a Human Enterprise

1. Introduction

2. Quantitative Imperative Versus the Imperative of Presuppositions

3. Understanding Scientific Progress: From Duhem to Lakatos

4. Kinetic Theory: Maxwell's Presuppositions

5. Periodic Table of the Chemical Elements: From Mendeleev to Moseley

6. Foundations of Modern Atomic Theory: Thomson, Rutherford, and Bohr

7. Determination of the Elementary Electrical Charge: Millikan and Ehrenhaft

8. Paradox of the Photoelectric Effect: Einstein and Millikan

9. Bending of Light in the 1919 Eclipse Experiments: Einstein and Eddington

10. Lewis's Covalent Bond: From Transfer of Electrons to Sharing of Electrons

11. Quantum Mechanics: From Bohr to Bohm

12. Wave–Particle Duality: De Broglie, Einstein, and Schrödinger

13. Searching for Quarks: Perl's Philosophy of Speculative Experiments

14. Conclusion: Inductive Method as a Chimera

Keywords: Education, Science Education, Philosophy of Science, History of Science