Problems in Historical Epistemology
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1988, 1988
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1988 |
| Series: | Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1 / Epistemological Cognition as Historical Cognition
- 1.1. Factographical Versus Theoretical Historicism
- 1.2. Framework Regularities
- 1.3. Assumptions of Historical Epistemology
- 1.4. The Relation Born by General Statements of Historical Epistemology on Methodological Norms and Directives
- Notes
- 2 / The Relation of Correspondence
- 2.1. Literal Reference
- 2.2. The Characteristics of Essentially Corrective (Strict) Correspondence
- 2.3. Remarks of Traditional Understandings of Correspondence
- 2.4. An Example of Essentially Corrective Correspondence, A Debate with the Views of P. K. Feyerabend
- Notes
- 3 / The Opposition of Theory and Experience
- 3.1. ‘Dogma of Empiricism’
- 3.2. Performed Action as the Essentially Corrected Correspondence Rendering of Undertaken Action
- 3.3 Two Kinds of Opposition of Theory and Experience: The Relative and the Absolute
- Notes
- 4 / The Duhem-Quine Thesis
- 4.1. The Comprehensive Instrumentalism of W. V. Quine
- 4.2. The Comprehensive Instrumentalism of W. V Quine from the Viewpoint of Historical Epistemology
- Notes
- 5 / Althusser’s Instrumentalism
- 5.1. A Marxist Variant of Theoretical Historicism Methodology
- 5.2. Althusser’s Conception of Historical Materialism
- 5.3. ‘Anti-Empiricism’ as a Consequence of the ‘Methodologically’ Instrumentalist Interpretation of Historical Materialism
- Notes