Progress and Rationality in Science
This collection of essays has evolved through the co-operative efforts, which began in the fall of 1974, of the participants in a workshop sponsored by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation. The idea of holding one or more small colloquia devoted to the topics of rational choice in science and scientific pro...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1978, 1978
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1978 |
| Series: | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Objective Criteria of Scientific Progress? Inductivism, Falsificationism, and Relativism
- I: The LSE Position
- The Popperian Approach to Scientific Knowledge
- The Ways in Which the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes Improves on Popper’s Methodology
- ‘Crucial’ Experiments: A Case Study
- The Objective Promise of a Research Programme
- II: Reflections on the LSE Position
- Popper vs Inductivism
- In Defence of Aristotle: Comments on the Condition of Content Increase
- Evidential Support, Falsification, Heuristics, and Anarchism
- Science and the Search for Truth
- Philosophy of Science and Its Rational Reconstructions
- Towards a New Theory of Scientific Inquiry
- Some Critical Comments on Current Popperianism on the Basis of a Theory of System Sets
- The Problem of Verisimilitude
- Objectivism vs Sociologism
- III: The LSE Reply
- Research Programmes, Empirical Support, and the Duhem Problem: Replies to Criticism
- Corroboration and the Problem of Content-Comparison
- Unified Bibliography for Parts I And III
- IV: Two Brief Rejoinders
- The Gong Show — Popperian Style
- Reply to Watkins
- Biographical Notes
- Author Index