Change and Progress in Modern Science [electronic resource] : Papers related to and arising from the Fourth International Conference on History and Philosophy of Science, Blacksburg, Virginia, November 1982 / edited by Joseph C. Pitt.
Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9789400965256
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 1985.
Yayın Bilgisi
Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1985.
Fiziksel Niteleme
VIII, 400 p. online resource.
Dizi
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, 2215-1974 ; 27
İçindekiler Notu
Reflections on Change -- I. Historical Dimensions -- The Mechanical Philosophy and Its Problems: Mechanical Explanations, Impenetrability, and Perpetual Motion -- Ghosts in the World Machine: A Taxonomy of Leibnizian Forces -- The Notion of Experimental Physics in Early Eighteenth-Century France -- Some Pragmatic Aspects of the Methodology of Johann Heinrich Lambert -- Classical Wage Theory and the Causal Complications of Explaining Distribution -- Genetic Epistemology in the Context of Evolutionary Epistemology -- II. Conceptual Considerations -- Truthlikeness, Realism, and Progressive Theory-Change -- In Praise of Cumulative Progress -- Kuhn’s Critique of Methodology -- Scientific Discovery and Theory-Confirmation -- Meaning, Acceptance, and Dialectics -- Extraterrestrial Science.
Konu
Science __ Philosophy.
History.
Philosophy of Science.
History.
History.
Philosophy of Science.
History.
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