1. Some tactics in Galileo’s propaganda for the mathematization of scientific experience.- 2. Leibniz on choosing between rival scientific hypotheses.- 3. Philosophers as professional relativists.- 4. Kant’s schemata as semantical rules.- 5. The methodological structure of Kant’s metaphysics of science.- 6. Teleology and scientific method in Kant’s Critique of Judgment.- 7. The grammar of reason: Hamann’s challenge to Kant.- 8. Metaphysics, methodology and the pragmatic unity of the sciences.- 9. Necessary truth in Whewell’s theory of science.- 10. Whewell’s logic of induction.- 11. Consilience of inductions and the problem of conceptual change in science.- 12. Whewell on Newton’s rules of philosophizing.- 13. ‘A purely scientific temper’: Victorian expressions of the ideal of an autonomous science.- Bibliography of Works Cited.- Index of Names and Subjects.