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Theories of scientific progress : an introduction /
"Theories of Scientific Progress presents the arguments for and against common extremes, and the positions in between. It covers the interpretations of scientific progress from William Whewell through Karl Popper and Imre Lakatos to Thomas Kuhn and beyond, to the latest contemporary debates.&qu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Routledge,
2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Chapter INTRODUCTION
- part PART I Progress as incorporation
- chapter 1 Whewell's "tributary-river" image of scientific progress
- chapter 2 Brewster on how not to do history of science
- chapter 3 Mill's objections to Whewell's historicism
- On Whewell's appeal to a priori intuitions
- chapter 4 Progress through reduction
- chapter 5 Lakatos' version of the "progress is incorporation" thesis
- chapter 6 Progress and the asymptotic agreement of calculations
- part PART II Progress as revolutionary overthrow
- chapter 7 I.B. COHENONTHEIDENTIFIC AT IONOFSCIENTIFICREVOLUTIONS
- chapter 8 Kuhn's taxonomic criterion
- chapter 9 Toulmin's "ideals of natural order"
- chapter 10 Ideological upheaval and revolutionary change
- chapter 11 Kuhn's three-beat pattern
- chapter 12 Laudan's reticulational model of scientific change
- chapter 13 Popper on progress through overthrow-with-incorporation
- part PART III Descriptive theories of scientific progress
- chapter 14 Normative and descriptive theories
- chapter 15 Scientific progress and convergence upon truth
- chapter 16 Laudan on scientific progress as increasing problem-solving effectiveness
- chapter 17 Kitcher on conceptual progress and explanatory progress
- chapter 18 Normative naturalism
- chapter 19 Scientific progress and the theory of organic evolution
- Toulmin on conceptual evolution.