Theories of scientific progress : an introduction /
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| Author / Creator: | Losee, John. |
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| Imprint: | New York : Routledge, 2004. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (vi, 181 pages) |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11297493 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I.
- 1. Whewell's "tributary-River" Image of Scientific Progress
- 2. Brewster on How Not to Do History of Science
- 3. Mill's Objections to Whewell's Historicism
- 4. Progress Through Reduction
- 5. Lakatos' Version of the "progress is Incorporation" Thesis
- 6. Progress and the Asymptotic Agreement of Calculations
- Part II.
- 7. I. B. Cohen on the Identification of Scientific Revolutions
- 8. Kuhn's Taxonomic Criterion
- 9. Toulmin's "ideals of Natural Order"
- 10. Ideological Upheaval and Revolutionary Change
- 11. Kuhn's Three-Beat Pattern
- 12. Laudan's Reticulational Model of Scientific Change
- 13. Popper on Progress Through Overthrow - With-Incorporation
- Part III.
- 14. Normative and Descriptive Theories
- 15. Scientific Progress and Convergence Upon Truth
- 16. Laudan on Scientific Progress as Increasing Problem-Solving Effectiveness
- 17. Kitcher on Conceptual Progress and Explanatory Progress
- 18. Normative Naturalism
- 19. Scientific Progress and the Theory of Organic Evolution
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects