Author | Laudan, Larry. author |
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Title | Science and Hypothesis [electronic resource] : Historical Essays on Scientific Methodology / by Larry Laudan |
Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1981 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7288-0 |
Descript | XI, 260 p. 1 illus. online resource |
1. Introduction -- 2. The Sources of Modern Methodology: Two Models of Change -- 3. A Revisionist Note on the Methodological Significance of Galilean Mechanics -- 4. The Clock Metaphor and Hypotheses: The Impact of Descartes on English Methodological Thought, 1650โ1670 -- 5. John Locke on Hypotheses: Placing The Essay in the โScientific Traditionโ -- 6. Hume (and Hacking) on Induction -- 7. Thomas Reid and the Newtonian Turn of British Methodological Thought -- 8. The Epistemology of Light: Some Methodological Issues in the Subtle Fluids Debate -- 9. Towards a Reassessment of Comteโs โMรฉthode Positiveโ -- 10. William Whewell on the Consilience of Inductions -- 11. Why was the Logic of Discovery Abandoned? -- 12. A Note on Induction and Probability in the 19th Century -- 13. Ernst Machโs Opposition to Atomism -- 14. Peirce and the Trivialization of the Self-Corrective Thesis -- Bibliographic Note -- Index of Names