Change and Progress in Modern Science Papers related to and arising from the Fourth International Conference on History and Philosophy of Science, Blacksburg, Virginia, November 1982
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1985, 1985
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1985 |
| Series: | The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, A Series of Books in Philosophy of Science, Methodology, Epistemology, Logic, History of Science, and Related Fields
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Reflections on Change
- I. Historical Dimensions
- The Mechanical Philosophy and Its Problems: Mechanical Explanations, Impenetrability, and Perpetual Motion
- Ghosts in the World Machine: A Taxonomy of Leibnizian Forces
- The Notion of Experimental Physics in Early Eighteenth-Century France
- Some Pragmatic Aspects of the Methodology of Johann Heinrich Lambert
- Classical Wage Theory and the Causal Complications of Explaining Distribution
- Genetic Epistemology in the Context of Evolutionary Epistemology
- II. Conceptual Considerations
- Truthlikeness, Realism, and Progressive Theory-Change
- In Praise of Cumulative Progress
- Kuhn’s Critique of Methodology
- Scientific Discovery and Theory-Confirmation
- Meaning, Acceptance, and Dialectics
- Extraterrestrial Science