Structures in Science Heuristic Patterns Based on Cognitive Structures An Advanced Textbook in Neo-Classical Philosophy of Science
Although there is an abundance of highly specialized monographs, learned collections and general introductions to the philosophy of science, only a few 25 years. synthetic monographs and advanced textbooks have appeared in the last The philosophy of science seems to have lost its self-confidence. Th...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2001, 2001
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2001 |
| 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:
- I Units of Scientific Knowledge and Knowledge Acquisition; Introduction
- 1 Research Programs and Research Strategies
- 2 Observational Laws and Proper Theories
- II Patterns of Explanation and Description; Introduction
- 3 Explanation and Reduction of Laws
- 4 Explanation and Description by Specification
- III Structures in Interlevel and Interfield Research; Introduction
- 5 Reduction and Correlation of Concepts
- 6 Levels, Styles, and Mind-Body Research
- IV Confirmation and Empirical Progress; Introduction
- 7 Testing and Further Separate Evaluation of Theories
- 8 Empirical Progress and Pseudoscience
- V Truth, Product, and Concept Approximation; Introduction
- 9 Progress in Nomological, Explicative and Design
- 10 Design Research Programs
- VI Capita Selecta; Introduction
- 11 Computational Philosophy of Science
- 12 The Structuralist Approach to Theories
- 13 ‘Default-Norms’ in Research Ethics
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- Exercises
- Notes
- References
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects