Scientific progress : a study concerning the nature of the relation between successive scientific theories
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Scientific progress : a study concerning the nature of the relation between successive scientific theories
（Synthese library, v. 153）
D. Reidel Pub. Co. , Sold and distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Kluwer Academic, 1986
2nd ed
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- : pbk
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"First published in 1981 as vol. 153 of Reidel's Synthese library"--T.p. verso
Bibliography: p. [167]-173
Includes index
"PAL 36"--Cover
Description and Table of Contents
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: hbk ISBN 9789027722157
Description
Featuring the Gestalt Model and the Perspectivist conception of science, this book is unique in its non-relativistic development of the idea that successive scientific theories are logically incommensurable. This edition includes four new appendices in which the central ideas of the book are applied to subatomic physics, the distinction between laws and theories, the relation between absolute and relative conceptions of space, and the environmental issue of sustainable development.
Table of Contents
1. The Deductive Model.- 2. The Basis of the Logical Empiricist Conception of Science.- 3. The Basis of the Popperian Conception of Science.- 4. The Logical Empiricist Conception of Scientific Progress.- 5. The Popperian Conception of Scientific Progress.- 6. Popper, Lakatos, and the Transcendence of the Deductive Model.- 7. Kuhn, Feyerabend, and Incommensurability.- 8. The Gestalt Model.- 9. The Perspectivist Conception of Science.- 10. Development of the Perspectivist Conception in the Context of the Kinetic Theory of Gases.- 11. The Set-Theoretic Conception of Science.- 12. Application of the Perspectivist Conception to the Views of Newton, Kepler, and Galileo.- Appendix I: On Theoretical Terms.- Appendix II: The Gestalt Model of Scientific Progress.- References.
- Volume
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: pbk ISBN 9789027722164
Description
Featuring the Gestalt Model and the Perspectivist conception of science, this book is unique in its non-relativistic development of the idea that successive scientific theories are logically incommensurable. This edition includes four new appendices in which the central ideas of the book are applied to subatomic physics, the distinction between laws and theories, the relation between absolute and relative conceptions of space, and the environmental issue of sustainable development.
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