Scientific progress [electronic resource] : a study concerning the nature of the relation between successive scientific theories / by Graig Dilworth.
Featuring the Gestalt Model and the Perspectivist conception of science, this book is unique in its non-relativistic development of the idea that successive scientific theories are logically incommensurable. This edition includes four new appendices in which the central ideas of the book are applied...
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| Language: | English |
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Springer,
1986.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Series: | Synthese library ;
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The Deductive Model
- 2. The Basis of the Logical Empiricist Conception of Science
- 3. The Basis of the Popperian Conception of Science
- 4. The Logical Empiricist Conception of Scientific Progress
- 5. The Popperian Conception of Scientific Progress
- 6. Popper, Lakatos, and the Transcendence of the Deductive Model
- 7. Kuhn, Feyerabend, and Incommensurability
- 8. The Gestalt Model
- 9. The Perspectivist Conception of Science
- 10. Development of the Perspectivist Conception in the Context of the Kinetic Theory of Gases
- 11. The Set-Theoretic Conception of Science
- 12. Application of the Perspectivist Conception to the Views of Newton, Kepler, and Galileo
- Appendix I: On Theoretical Terms
- Appendix II: The Gestalt Model of Scientific Progress
- References.