Dilworth Scientific Progress

A Study Concerning the Nature of the Relation Between Successive Scientific Theories
4th Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-1-4020-6354-1
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 153, 290 Seiten

Reihe: Synthese Library

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 theory is a progression beyond another. Dilworth’s does both.

While remaining within the bounds of classical philosophy of science, Dilworth does away with the logicism of his competitors. On the Perspectivist view theory conflict is not contradiction, and theory superiority does not consist in deductive subsumption or set-theoretic inclusion. Here the relation between theories is analogous to the application of individual concepts, and the question of theory superiority becomes one of relative applicability. In this way Dilworth succeeds in providing a conception of science in which scientific progress is based on both rational and empirical considerations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dilworth, Craig

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;CONTENTS;8
2;ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS;14
3;PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION;15
4;PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION;16
5;PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION;17
6;INTRODUCTION;19
7;THE DEDUCTIVE MODEL;22
8;THE BASIS OF THE LOGICAL EMPIRICIST CONCEPTION OF SCIENCE;26
9;THE BASIS OF THE POPPERIAN CONCEPTION OF SCIENCE;29
10;THE LOGICAL EMPIRICIST CONCEPTION OF SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS;37
11;THE POPPERIAN CONCEPTION OF SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS;44
12;POPPER, LAKATOS, AND THE TRANSCENDENCE OF THE DEDUCTIVE MODEL;59
13;KUHN, FEYERABEND, AND INCOMMENSURABILITY;67
14;THE GESTALT MODEL;73
15;THE PERSPECTIVIST CONCEPTION OF SCIENCE;84
16;DEVELOPMENT OF THE PERSPECTIVIST CONCEPTION IN THE CONTEXT OF THE KINETIC THEORY OF GASES;107
17;THE SET- THEORETIC CONCEPTION OF SCIENCE;126
18;APPLICATION OF THE PERSPECTIVIST CONCEPTION TO THE VIEWS OF NEWTON, KEPLER AND GALILEO;141
19;ON THEORETICAL TERMS;149
20;REPLY TO CRITICISM OF THE FIRST EDITION;165
21;PERSPECTIVISM AND SUBATOMIC PHYSICS;188
22;ON THE NATURE OF SCIENTIFIC LAWS AND THEORIES;194
23;IS THE TRANSITION FROM ABSOLUTE TO RELATIVE SPACE A SHIFT OF CONCEPTUAL PERSPECTIVE?;214
24;TWO PERSPECTIVES ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;221
25;MODERN SCIENCE AND THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN PRIMARY AND SECONDARY QUALITIES;243
26;A THEORY OF IDENTITY AND REFERENCE;248
27;REFERENCES;285
28;INDEX;300