Theories of Scientific Progress (Record no. 81500)
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| International Standard Book Number | 0415320674 |
| Terms of availability | 1743 |
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| Classification number | N54 |
| Item number | L897 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Losee, John |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Theories of Scientific Progress |
| Remainder of title | An Introduction |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | London |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Routledge |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2004 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 181p |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | includes index and biblioraphy |
| 505 2# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | PART I Progress as incorporation 5 1 Whewell`s "tributary-river"` image of scientific progress 7 2 Brewster on how not to do history of science 17 3 Mill`s objections to Whewell`s historicism 19 4 Progress through reduction 28 5 Lakatos` version of the "progress is incorporation" thesis 38 6 Progress and the asymptotic agreement of calculations 51 Part I: Suggestions for further reading 56 PART II Progress as revolutionary overthrow 63 7 I.E. Cohen on the identification of scientific revolutions 65 8 Kuhn`s taxonomic criterion 68 9 Toulmin`s "ideals of natural order" 73 10 Ideological upheaval and revolutionary change 75 11 Kuhn`s three-beat pattern 76 12 Laudan`s reticulational model of scientific change 82 13 Popper on progress through overthrow-with-incorporation 88 Part II: Suggestions for further reading 92 PART III Descriptive theories of scientific progress 95 14 Normative and descriptive theories 97 15 Scientific progress and convergence upon truth 98 16 Laudan on scientific progress as increasing problem-solving effectiveness 120 17 Kitcher on conceptual progress and explanatory progress 126 18 Normative naturalism 130 19 Scientific progress and the theory of organic evolution 140 Part III: Suggestions for further reading 152 |
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| Personal name | Losee, John |
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| DVK Library | DVK Library | Stack -> Second Floor -> N | 1743.00 | N54 L897 | 11045508 | 19/05/2021 | 1743.00 | 12/01/2020 | Books |