Scientific Progress: A Study Concerning the Nature of the Relation Between Successive Scientific Theories

✍ Scribed by Craig Dilworth (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 254
• Series: Synthese Library 153
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-9
Introduction....Pages 11-13
The Deductive Model....Pages 14-17
The Basis of the Logical Empiricist Conception of Science....Pages 18-21
The Basis of the Popperian Conception of Science....Pages 22-29
The Logical Empiricist Conception of Scientific Progress....Pages 30-36
The Popperian Conception of Scientific Progress....Pages 37-51
Popper, Lakatos, and the Transcendence of the Deductive Model....Pages 52-59
Kuhn, Feyerabend, and Incommensurability....Pages 60-65
The Gestalt Model....Pages 66-76
The Perspectivist Conception of Science....Pages 77-99
Development of the Perspectivist Conception in the Context of the Kinetic Theory of Gases....Pages 100-117
The Set-Theoretic Conception of Science....Pages 118-132
Application of the Perspectivist Conception to the Views of Newton Kepler and Galileo....Pages 133-141
Back Matter....Pages 142-252

✦ Subjects

Philosophy of Science; Epistemology; Metaphysics