Wissenschaftstheorie
I'm preparing an introductory course on Wissenschaftstheorie that I'm supposed to teach next semester in the institute of library science. Unfortunately, the textbooks currently available in German are not nearly as good as many English ones.
Another (related) problem is that I'm not sure what Wissenschaftstheorie actually is. Well, I believe it is roughly the same as philosophy of science. But looking through German textbooks and the course guide of my predecessor, apparently some people think it also includes some or all of history and sociology of science, general epistemology, methodology, logic, philosophy of language, and stuff like hermeneutics and dialectics (whatever that is). I guess I'll stick to philosophy of science, even if that means using old textbooks by Carnap and Hempel.
speaking of introductory material: Why isn't there (in case there really isn't) a good introduction to David Lewis in English?
There are quite a few on Quine, Putnam, Davidson of course but with Lewis everybody is left alone.
Why doesn't anyone knowledable get to the task and write a neat small book on Lewis' views?
M.