Acknowledgments. Introduction. The science wars in perspective. I. Perspectives on science studies. 1. Viewing science. 2. Explaining scientific revolutions. 3. Science and technology studies. II. Perspectives on science. 4. Naturalism and realism 5. Science without laws of nature. 6. The cognitive structure of scientific theories. 7. Visual models and scientific judgment. III. Perspectives on the philosophy of science. Introduction. 8. Philosophy of science naturalized. 9. Constructive realism. 10. The feminism question in the philosophy of science. 11. From Wissenschaftliche Philosophie to philosophy of science. Conclusion. Underdetermination, relativism, and perspectival realism. Notes. References. Index. Nonhnear proqramminq and variational inequality problems: A Uni[ied Approach. By Michael Patriksson. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht. (1999). 334 pages. $168.00, NLG 280.00, GBP 99.00. Contents: Preface. Notation. 1. Introduction. 2. Technical preliminaries. 3. Instances of the cost approximation algorithm. 4. Merit functions for variational inequality problems. 5. Convergence of the CA algorithm for nonlinear programs. 6. Convergence of the CA algorithm for variation inequality problems. 7. Finite identification of active constraints and of solutions. 8. Parallel and sequential decomposition CA algorithms. 9. A column generation/simplicial decompositional algorithm. Appendix. Definitions. References. Index.