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| ISBN: | 9781402063541
1402063547
9781402063534
1402063539
661133923X
9786611339234
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-281) and index.
Description based on print version record.
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| Summary: | "Kuhn and Feyerabend formulated the problem. Dilworth provides the solution." "In this highly original and insightful book, Craig Dilworth answers all the questions raised by the incommensurability thesis. Logical empiricism cannot account for theory conflict. Popperianism cannot account for how one theory is a progression beyond another. Dilworth's Perspectivist conception of science does both." "While remaining within the bounds of classical philosophy of science, Dilworth does away with the logicism of his competitors. On the Perspectivist view theory conflict is not contradiction, and theory superiority does not consist in deductive subsumption or set-theoretic inclusion. Here the relation between theories is analogous to the application of individual concepts, and the question of theory superiority becomes one of relative applicability. In this way Dilworth succeeds in providing a conception of science in which scientific progress is based on both rational and empirical considerations."--Jacket.
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| Other form: | Print version: Dilworth, Craig. Scientific progress. Dordrecht : Springer Verlag, 2007 9781402063534 1402063539
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