Science and Hypothesis Historical Essays on Scientific Methodology
This book consists of a collection of essays written between 1965 and 1981. Some have been published elsewhere; others appear here for the first time. Although dealing with different figures and different periods, they have a common theme: all are concerned with examining how the method of hy pothe...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1981, 1981
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1981 |
| 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:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Sources of Modern Methodology: Two Models of Change
- 3. A Revisionist Note on the Methodological Significance of Galilean Mechanics
- 4. The Clock Metaphor and Hypotheses: The Impact of Descartes on English Methodological Thought, 1650–1670
- 5. John Locke on Hypotheses: Placing The Essay in the ‘Scientific Tradition’
- 6. Hume (and Hacking) on Induction
- 7. Thomas Reid and the Newtonian Turn of British Methodological Thought
- 8. The Epistemology of Light: Some Methodological Issues in the Subtle Fluids Debate
- 9. Towards a Reassessment of Comte’s ‘Méthode Positive’
- 10. William Whewell on the Consilience of Inductions
- 11. Why was the Logic of Discovery Abandoned?
- 12. A Note on Induction and Probability in the 19th Century
- 13. Ernst Mach’s Opposition to Atomism
- 14. Peirce and the Trivialization of the Self-Corrective Thesis
- Bibliographic Note
- Index of Names