The Justification of Scientific Change

In this book I discuss the justification of scientific change and argue that it rests on different sorts of invariance. Against this background I con­ sider notions of observation, meaning, and regulative standards. My position is in opposition to some widely influential and current views. Revolutio...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kordig, C.R.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1971, 1971
Edition:1st ed. 1971
Series:Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science
Subjects:
Online Access:
Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
LEADER 02783nmm a2200277 u 4500
001 EB000715277
003 EBX01000000000000000568359
005 00000000000000.0
007 cr|||||||||||||||||||||
008 140122 ||| eng
020 |a 9789401017343 
100 1 |a Kordig, C.R. 
245 0 0 |a The Justification of Scientific Change  |h Elektronische Ressource  |c by C.R. Kordig 
250 |a 1st ed. 1971 
260 |a Dordrecht  |b Springer Netherlands  |c 1971, 1971 
300 |a XIV, 122 p  |b online resource 
505 0 |a Analytical Table of Contents -- 1: The Theory-ladenness of Observation -- 2: An Examination of Some Arguments and Criteria for Radical Meaning Variance -- 3: The Methodological Undesirability of Adopting a Position of Radical Meaning Variance -- 4: The Comparability of Scientific Theories 
653 |a Science / Philosophy 
653 |a Philosophy of Science 
041 0 7 |a eng  |2 ISO 639-2 
989 |b SBA  |a Springer Book Archives -2004 
490 0 |a Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science 
028 5 0 |a 10.1007/978-94-010-1734-3 
856 4 0 |u https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1734-3?nosfx=y  |x Verlag  |3 Volltext 
082 0 |a 501 
520 |a In this book I discuss the justification of scientific change and argue that it rests on different sorts of invariance. Against this background I con­ sider notions of observation, meaning, and regulative standards. My position is in opposition to some widely influential and current views. Revolutionary new ideas concerning the philosophy of science have recently been advanced by Feyerabend, Hanson, Kuhn, Toulmin, and others. There are differences among their views and each in some respect differs from the others. It is, however, not the differences, but rather the similarities that are of primary concern to me here. The claim that there are pervasive presuppositions fundamental to scientific in­ vestigations seems to be essential to the views of these men. Each would further hold that transitions from one scientific tradition to another force radical changes in what is observed, in the meanings of the terms employed, and in the metastandards involved. They would claim that total replace­ ment, not reduction, is what does, and should, occur during scientific revolutions. I argue that the proposed arguments for radical observational variance, for radical meaning variance, and for radical variance of regulative standards with respect to scientific transitions all fail. I further argue that these positions are in themselves implausible and methodologically undesirable. I sketch an account of the rationale of scientific change which preserves the merits and avoids the shortcomings of the approach of radical meaning variance theorists