Scientific Progress A Study Concerning the Nature of the Relation Between Successive Scientific Theories /

• Main Author: Dilworth, Craig (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2007.
• Series: Synthese Library ; 153
• Subjects: History.; Epistemology.; Metaphysics.; Philosophy and science.; History of Science.; Philosophy of Science.

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 conflict. Popperianism cannot account for how one th...

Table of Contents:

• The Deductive Model
• The Basis Of The Logical Empiricist Conception Of Science
• The Basis Of The Popperian Conception Of Science
• The Logical Empiricist Conception Of Scientific Progress
• The Popperian Conception Of Scientific Progress
• Popper, Lakatos, And The Transcendence Of The Deductive Model
• Kuhn, Feyerabend, And In Commensurability
• The Gestalt Model
• The Perspectivist Conception Of Science
• Development Of The Perspectivist Conception In The Context Of The Kinetic Theory Of Gases
• The Set-Theoretic Conception Of Science
• Application Of The Perspectivist Conception To The Views Of Newton, Kepler And Galileo.