Author | Kuipers, Theo A. F. author |
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Title | Structures in Science [electronic resource] : Heuristic Patterns Based on Cognitive Structures. An Advanced Textbook in Neo-Classical Philosophy of Science / by Theo A. F. Kuipers |
Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2001 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9739-5 |
Descript | XVI, 414 p. online resource |
I Units of Scientific Knowledge and Knowledge Acquisition; Introduction -- 1 Research Programs and Research Strategies -- 2 Observational Laws and Proper Theories -- II Patterns of Explanation and Description; Introduction -- 3 Explanation and Reduction of Laws -- 4 Explanation and Description by Specification -- III Structures in Interlevel and Interfield Research; Introduction -- 5 Reduction and Correlation of Concepts -- 6 Levels, Styles, and Mind-Body Research -- IV Confirmation and Empirical Progress; Introduction -- 7 Testing and Further Separate Evaluation of Theories -- 8 Empirical Progress and Pseudoscience -- V Truth, Product, and Concept Approximation; Introduction -- 9 Progress in Nomological, Explicative and Design -- 10 Design Research Programs -- VI Capita Selecta; Introduction -- 11 Computational Philosophy of Science -- 12 The Structuralist Approach to Theories -- 13 โDefault-Normsโ in Research Ethics -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Exercises -- Notes -- References -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects