Can Theories be Refuted? Essays on the Duhem-Quine Thesis
According to a view assumed by many scientists and philosophers of science and standardly found in science textbooks, it is controlled ex perience which provides the basis for distinguishing between acceptable and unacceptable theories in science: acceptable theories are those which can pass empiri...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1976, 1976
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1976 |
| 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:
- Physical Theory and Experiment
- Two Dogmas of Empiricism
- Empiricist Criteria of Cognitive Significance: Problems and Changes
- Some Fundamental Problems in the Logic of Scientific Discovery
- Background Knowledge and Scientific Growth
- The Duhemian Argument
- A Comment on Grünbaum’s Claim
- Scientific Revolutions as Changes of World View
- Grünbaum on ‘The Duhemian Argument’
- Quine, Grünbaum, and the Duhemian Thesis
- Duhem, Quine and Grünbaum on Falsification
- Duhem, Quine and a New Empiricism
- Falsification and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes
- Is it never Possible to Falsify a Hypothesis Irrevocably?
- The Rationality of Science (From‘Against Method’)
- Index of Names