Title | After Popper, Kuhn and Feyerabend [electronic resource] : Recent Issues in Theories of Scientific Method / edited by Robert Nola, Howard Sankey |
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Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2000 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3935-9 |
Descript | XIX, 257 p. online resource |
A Selective Survey of Theories of Scientific Method -- How We Know About Electrons -- The Rationality of the Chemical Revolution -- Kuhn, Bayes and โTheory-Choiceโ: How Revolutionary is Kuhnโs Account of Theoretical Change? -- With Friends Like Theseโฆ, or What is Inductivism and Why is it Off the Agenda? -- Is Epistemology Adequate to the Task of Rational Theory Evaluation? -- Naturalism Logicized -- Methodological Pluralism, Normative Naturalism and the Realist Aim of Science -- Hard Problems in the Philosophy of Science: Idealisation and Commensurability -- Notes on Contributors -- Index of Names