Change and Progress in Modern Science: Papers related to and arising from the Fourth International Conference on History and Philosophy of Science, ... Series in Philosophy of Science, Band 27) - Hardcover

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9789027718983: Change and Progress in Modern Science: Papers related to and arising from the Fourth International Conference on History and Philosophy of Science, ... Series in Philosophy of Science, Band 27)
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ISBN 10: 9027718989 ISBN 13: 9789027718983
Verlag: Springer, 1984

Inhaltsangabe

Reflections on Change.- I. Historical Dimensions.- The Mechanical Philosophy and Its Problems: Mechanical Explanations, Impenetrability, and Perpetual Motion.- Ghosts in the World Machine: A Taxonomy of Leibnizian Forces.- The Notion of Experimental Physics in Early Eighteenth-Century France.- Some Pragmatic Aspects of the Methodology of Johann Heinrich Lambert.- Classical Wage Theory and the Causal Complications of Explaining Distribution.- Genetic Epistemology in the Context of Evolutionary Epistemology.- II. Conceptual Considerations.- Truthlikeness, Realism, and Progressive Theory-Change.- In Praise of Cumulative Progress.- Kuhn's Critique of Methodology.- Scientific Discovery and Theory-Confirmation.- Meaning, Acceptance, and Dialectics.- Extraterrestrial Science.

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Springer
Erscheinungsdatum
1984
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Englisch
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9027718989
ISBN 13 
9789027718983
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408
Herausgeber
Pitt Joseph C.
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