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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Laws of Scientific Change
  name:
    name part: Barseghyan, Hakob.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2015
    edition: 1st ed. 2015.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVI, 275 p. 123 illus., 63 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This book systematically creates a general descriptive theory of scientific change that explains the mechanics of changes in both scientific theories and the methods of their assessment. It was once believed that, while scientific theories change through time, their change itself is governed by a fixed method of science. Nowadays we know that there is no such thing as an unchangeable method of science; the criteria employed by scientists in theory evaluation also change through time. But if that is so, how and why do theories and methods change? Are there any general laws that govern this process, or is the choice of theories and methods completely arbitrary and random? Contrary to the widespread opinion, the book argues that scientific change is indeed a law-governed process and that there can be a general descriptive theory of scientific change. It does so by first presenting meta-theoretical issues, divided into chapters on the scope, possibility and assessment of theory of scientific change. It then builds a theory about the general laws that govern the process of scientific change, and goes into detail about the axioms and theorems of the theory.
  table of contents: Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I: METATHEORY -- Chapter 1: Scope -- Chapter 2: Possibility -- Chapter 3: Assessment -- PART II: THEORY -- Chapter 4: Axioms -- Chapter 5: Theorems -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Some Open Questions -- Bibliography -- Legend. .
  note: by Hakob Barseghyan.
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy and science
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of Science
  subject:
    topic: History of Science
  classification: B67
  classification: 501
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      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783319175966
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17596-6
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    record creation date: 150817
    record change date: 20151111151124.0
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