The Laws of Scientific Change

• Main Author: Barseghyan, Hakob (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2015.
• Subjects: Philosophy.; History.; Philosophy and science.; Philosophy of Science.; History of Science.

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 fi...

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
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