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Theories of Scientific Progress : an Introduction.
There seems little doubt that we have made progress in scientific theories, but how? Theories of Scientific Progress presents the arguments, covers interpretations of scientific progress and discusses the latest contemporary debates.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Routledge,
2003.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Introduction; Progress as incorporation; Whewell's ~tributary river~ image of scientific progress; Brewster on how not to do history of science; Mill's objections to Whewell's historicism; Progress through reduction; Lakatos' version of the ~progress is incorporation~ thesis; Progress and the asymptotic agreement of calculations; Progress as revolutionary overthrow; I.B. Cohen on the identification of scientific revolutions; Kuhn's taxonomic criterion; Toulmin's ~ideals of natural order~; Ideological upheaval and revolutionary change.
- Kuhn's three-beat patternLaudan's reticulational model of scientific change; Popper on progress through overthrow-with-incorporation; Descriptive theories of scientific progress; Normative and descriptive theories; Scientific progress and convergence upon truth; Laudan on scientific progress as increasing problem-solving effectiveness; Kitcher on conceptual progress and explanatory progress; Normative naturalism; Scientific.