Scientific progress : a study concerning the nature of the relation between successive scientific theories / by Craig Dilworth.

Author/creator Dilworth, Craig
Format Book
Edition4th ed.
Publication InfoDordrecht : Springer Verlag, 2008.
Descriptionxvii, 289 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesSynthese library ; 153
Synthese library ; 153. ^A4759
Contents The decuctive model -- The basis of the logical empiricist conception of science -- The basis of the popperian conception of science -- The logical empiricist conception of scientific progress -- The Popperian conception of scientific progress -- Popper, Lakatos, and the transcendence of the deductive model -- Kuhn, Feyerabend, and incommensurability -- The gestalt model -- The perspectivist conception of science -- Development of the perspectivist conception in the context of the kinetic theory of gases -- The set-theoretic conception of science -- Application of the perspectivist conception to the views of Newton, Kepler and Galileo.
General noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [267]-281) and index.
ISBN9781402091087 (acid-free paper)
ISBN1402091087 (acid-free paper)

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Joyner General Stacks Q175 .D6342 2008 ✔ Available Place Hold