Method And Appraisal In The Physical Sciences
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Method and Appraisal in the Physical Sciences
Author | : Colin Howson |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1976-09-02 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0521211107 |
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This is a volume of studies on the problems of theory-appraisal in the physical sciences.
Method in the physical sciences
Author | : George N. Schlesinger |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 0415420296 |
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Theories of Scientific Progress
Author | : John Losee |
Publsiher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0415320666 |
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There seems little doubt that we have made progress in scientific theories, but how? Theories of Scientific Progress presents the arguments, covers interpretations of scientific progress and discusses the latest contemporary debates.
Critical Appraisal of Physical Science as a Human Enterprise
Author | : Mansoor Niaz |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2009-02-07 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9781402096266 |
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It is generally believed that doing science means accumulating empirical data with no or little reference to the interpretation of the data based on the scientist’s th- retical framework or presuppositions. Holton (1969a) has deplored the widely accepted myth (experimenticism) according to which progress in science is presented as the inexorable result of the pursuit of logically sound conclusions from un- biguous experimental data. Surprisingly, some of the leading scientists themselves (Millikan is a good example) have contributed to perpetuate the myth with respect to modern science being essentially empirical, that is carefully tested experim- tal facts (free of a priori conceptions), leading to inductive generalizations. Based on the existing knowledge in a field of research a scientist formulates the guiding assumptions (Laudan et al. , 1988), presuppositions (Holton, 1978, 1998) and “hard core” (Lakatos, 1970) of the research program that constitutes the imperative of presuppositions, which is not abandoned in the face of anomalous data. Laudan and his group consider the following paraphrase of Kant by Lakatos as an important guideline: philosophy of science without history of science is empty. Starting in the 1960s, this “historical school” has attempted to redraw and replace the positivist or logical empiricist image of science that dominated for the first half of the twentieth century. Among other aspects, one that looms large in these studies is that of “guiding assumptions” and has considerable implications for the main thesis of this monograph (Chapter 2).
Scientific Method
Author | : Barry Gower |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2012-10-12 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781134806294 |
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The central theme running throughout this outstanding new survey is the nature of the philosophical debate created by modern science's foundation in experimental and mathematical method. More recently, recognition that reasoning in science is probabilistic generated intense debate about whether and how it should be constrained so as to ensure the practical certainty of the conclusions drawn. These debates brought to light issues of a philosophical nature which form the core of many scientific controversies today. Scientific Method: A Historical and Philosophical Introduction presents these debates through clear and comparative discussion of key figures in the history of science. Key chapters critically discuss * Galileo's demonstrative method, Bacon's inductive method, and Newton's rules of reasoning * the rise of probabilistic `Bayesian' methods in the eighteenth century * the method of hypotheses through the work of Herschel, Mill and Whewell * the conventionalist views of Poincaré and Duhem * the inductivism of Peirce, Russell and Keynes * Popper's falsification compared with Reichenbach's enumerative induction * Carnap's scientific method as Bayesian reasoning The debates are brought up to date in the final chapters by considering the ways in which ideas about method in the physical and biological sciences have affected thinking about method in the social sciences. This debate is analyzed through the ideas of key theorists such as Kuhn, Lakatos, and Feyerabend.
The Physical Sciences
Author | : Hazen |
Publsiher | : Wiley |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 1996-02-27 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 0471137391 |
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A Philosophical Approach to MOND
Author | : David Merritt |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2020-04-30 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781108492690 |
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Outlining Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND), this volume assesses its viability as the leading alternative to the standard cosmological model.
In the Scope of Logic Methodology and Philosophy of Science
Author | : Peter Gärdenfors,Jan Wolenski,K. Kijania-Placek |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2013-03-14 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9789401704755 |
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This is the second of two volumes containing papers submitted by the invited speakers to the 11th international Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, held in Cracow in 1999, under the auspices of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science, Division of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. The invited speakers are the leading researchers and accordingly the book presents the current state of the intellectual discourse in the respective fields.