Scientific Progress A Study Concerning the Nature of the Relation Between Successive Scientific Theories
Kuhn and Feyerabend formulated the problem. Dilworth provides the solution. In this highly original and insightful book, Craig Dilworth answers all the questions raised by the incommensurability thesis. Logical empiricism cannot account for theory conflict. Popperianism cannot account for how one th...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2007, 2007
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| Edition: | 4th ed. 2007 |
| Series: | Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- The Deductive Model
- The Basis Of The Logical Empiricist Conception Of Science
- The Basis Of The Popperian Conception Of Science
- The Logical Empiricist Conception Of Scientific Progress
- The Popperian Conception Of Scientific Progress
- Popper, Lakatos, And The Transcendence Of The Deductive Model
- Kuhn, Feyerabend, And In Commensurability
- The Gestalt Model
- The Perspectivist Conception Of Science
- Development Of The Perspectivist Conception In The Context Of The Kinetic Theory Of Gases
- The Set-Theoretic Conception Of Science
- Application Of The Perspectivist Conception To The Views Of Newton, Kepler And Galileo