Rationality in Science [electronic resource] : Studies in the Foundations of Science and Ethics / edited by Risto Hilpinen.
The present volume is a product of an international research program 'Foundations of Science and Ethics', launched in 1976 by the Inter University Centre of Post-Graduate Studies, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, with the financial support of the V olkswagen Foundation. According to the outline ofth...
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1980.
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| Series: | Philosophical studies series in philosophy ;
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Table of Contents:
- Some Remarks Concerning Rationality in Science
- Scientific Rationality and the Ethics of Belief
- Explanation and Understanding: An Open Question?
- The Empirical Investigation of Synonymy and the Implication for Science
- A Model of Rational Consensus in Science
- Science, a Rational Enterprise? Some Remarks on the Consequences of Distinguishing Science as a Way of Presentation and Science as a Way of Research
- Scientific and Ethical Rationality
- The Underdetermination of Theory by Data
- Types of Dialogue
- The Use of Microstructures for the Classification of Texts
- Conceptual Continuity through Theory Changes
- Science and Humanism
- Probabilistic Empiricism and Rationality
- Norms of Inquiry: Rationality, Consistency Requirements and Normative Conflict
- The Influence of Reason on the Origin of Science
- Normative Characteristics of Scientific Activity
- Explanation of Action
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects.