Methodological Variance Essays in Epistemological Ontology and the Methodology of Science
For a philosopher with an abiding interest in the nature of objective knowledge systems in science, what could be more important than trying to think in terms of those very subjects of such knowledge to which men like Galileo, Newton, Max Planck, Einstein and others devoted their entire lifetimes? I...
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| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1991, 1991
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1991 |
| 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:
- One
- 1 / On the Objects of Our Subjective Knowledge
- 2 / Human Knowledge and Human Interaction
- 3 / Indeterminacy of Translation: A Non-Quinean Function of Content-Indeterminacy
- 4 / On the Impossibility of any Enterprise Concerning Self-Knowledge within Traditional Epistemology
- Two
- 5 / Methodological Essentialism in Science and in Philosophy
- 6 / Of Variance and Invariance in Science: Empirical Science as an Enterprise ComprisingNFCPSSystems
- 7 / Falsifiability and Methodological Invariance in Science
- 8 / The Methodology of Theory-Problem Interactive Systems
- 9 / The Resolving Power of a Scientific Theory as a Basis of its Epistemic Appraisal
- 10 / Epilogue
- Notes
- Index of Symbols
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects