Scientific Progress A Study Concerning the Nature of the Relation Be
Kuhn and Feyerabend formulated the problem. Dilworth provides the solution. In this highly original and insightful book, Craig Dilworth answers all the questions raised by the incommensurability thesis. Logical empiricism cannot account for theory conflic
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SYNTHESE LIBRARY STUDIES IN EPISTEMOLOGY LOGIC, METHODOLOGY, AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Editor-in-Chief: VINCENT F. HENDRICKS, Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark JOHN SYMONS, University of Texas at El Paso, U.S.A.
Honorary Editor: JAAKKO HINTIKKA, Boston University, U.S.A.
Editors: DIRK VAN DALEN, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands THEO A. F. KUIPERS, University of Groningen, The Netherlands TEDDY SEIDENFELD, Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A. PATRICK SUPPES, Stanford University, California, U.S.A. ´ SKI, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland JAN WOLEN
VOLUME 153
SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS A Study Concerning the Nature of the Relation Between Successive Scientific Theories
FOURTH EDITION by
CRAIG DILWORTH Department of Philosophy, Uppsala University
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ISBN 978-1-4020-6353-4 (HB) ISBN 978-1-4020-6354-1 (e-book)
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First edition 1981 Second edition 1986 Third edition 1994
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“Free of unnecessary ballast, and written with didactical aptitude, this book gives a complete overview of how the different views of scientific progress have developed since the time of the Vienna Circle. It is a suitable introduction to a complex period in contemporary theory of knowledge. In later chapters the author present his own standpoint, so that the work can also be used as a source of new impulses in this direction. … “The author convincingly works out how from his point of view it is possible to explain the conflict between two theories as an incompatibility of perspectives, and at the same time avoid sliding into relativism by giving criteria for scientific progress. … “I hope that my all too brief remarks will encourage the reader – and especially the interested non-specialist – to read this book.” Dialectica “This book provides an extremely clear description and critique of the best known contemporary versions of philosophy of science, and a very suggestive … solution of the general problem of scientific progress.” Annals of Science “The views discussed are carefully referenced and traced back to original sources. In this respect the work is especially useful to anyone interested in general problems in the philosophy of science.” Choice “Clear, interesting, and historiographically sensitive.” ISIS “The topic is an exceptionally difficult, but extremely important one. Most of Dilworth’s discussion is clear, well-written and technically flawless. Complemented by the right materials it shou
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