New philosophical perspectives on scientific progress / edited by Yafeng Shan.
| Other author | Shan, Yafeng. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023. |
| Description | pages cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction: Philosophical analyses of scientific progress / Yafeng Shan -- The epistemic approach : scientific progress as the accumulation of knowledge / Alexander Bird -- The semantic approach : scientific progress as increased truthlikeness / Ilkka Niiniluoto -- The functional approach : scientific progress as increased usefulness / Yafeng Shan -- The noetic approach : scientific progress as enabling understanding / Finnur Dellsén -- Progress in physics : a modular approach / Olivier Darrigol -- Progress in chemistry : a cumulative and pluralist view / Robin Hendry -- Progress in chemistry : themes at the macroscopic and microscopic levels / Paul Needham -- Epigenetic inheritance and progress in evolutionary biology : a developmental system approach / Eva Jablonka -- Progress in seismology : turning data into evidence about the Earth's interior / Teru Miyake -- Progress in psychology / Uljana Feest -- Progress in sociology? / Stephen Turner -- Progress in economics / Marcel Boumans, Catherine Herfeld -- Progress in medicine and medicines : moving from qualitative experience to commensurable materialism / Harold Cook -- Scientific progress and scientific realism / David Harker -- Scientific progress and incommensurability / Eric Oberheim -- Scientific progress and aesthetic values / Milena Ivanova -- Scientific progress and idealisation / Insa Lawler -- Scientific speculation and evidential progress / Peter Achinstein -- Scientific progress and interdisciplinarity / Hanne Anderson -- A human-right approach to scientific progress : the deontic framework / Michela Massimi. |
| Abstract | "This collection of original essays offers a comprehensive examination of scientific progress, which has been a central topic in recent debates in philosophy of science. Traditionally, debates concerning scientific progress have focused on different methodological approaches, notably the epistemic and semantic approaches. The chapters in Part I of the book defend these two traditional approaches, as well as the newly revived functional and newly developed understanding-based approaches. Part II features in-depth case studies of scientific progress from the history of science. The chapters cover individual sciences including physics, chemistry, evolutionary biology, seismology, psychology, sociology, economics, and medicine. Finally, Part III of the book explores important issues from contemporary philosophy of science. These chapters address the implications of scientific progress for the scientific realism/anti-realism debate, incommensurability, values in science, idealisation, scientific speculation, interdisciplinarity, and scientific perspectivalism. New Philosophical Perspectives on Scientific Progress will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working on the history and philosophy of science"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2022023076 |
| ISBN | 9780367760557 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9780367761844 (paperback) |
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