Scientific progress : a study concerning the nature of the relation between successive scientific theories /
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| Author / Creator: | Dilworth, Craig. |
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| Imprint: | Dordrecht : Springer Verlag, 2007. |
| Description: | xvii, 289 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Synthese library ; 153 Synthese library ; 153. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6643850 |
Table of Contents:
- The decuctive model
- The basis of the logical empiricist conception of science
- The basis of the popperian conception of science
- The logical empiricist conception of scientific progress
- The Popperian conception of scientific progress
- Popper, Lakatos, and the transcendence of the deductive model
- Kuhn, Feyerabend, and incommensurability
- The gestalt model
- The perspectivist conception of science
- Development of the perspectivist conception in the context of the kinetic theory of gases
- The set-theoretic conception of science
- Application of the perspectivist conception to the views of Newton, Kepler and Galileo.
