Craig Dilworth

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Scientific Progress: A Study Concerning the Nature of the Relation Between Successive Scientific Theories (2007)Paperback - 2007, 21 October 2008

Scientific Progress: A Study Concerning the Nature of the Relation Between Successive Scientific Theories (2007)
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Synthese Library
Part of Series
Synthese Library (Paperback)
Print Length
306 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Springer
Date Published
21 Oct 2008
ISBN-10
1402091087
ISBN-13
9781402091087

Description

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 Perspectivist conception of science 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.

Product Details

Author:
Craig Dilworth
Book Edition:
2007
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
NL
Date Published:
21 October 2008
Dimensions:
23.39 x 15.6 x 1.65 cm
Genre:
Science/Technology Aspects
ISBN-10:
1402091087
ISBN-13:
9781402091087
Language:
English
Location:
Dordrecht
Pages:
306
Publisher:
Weight:
435.45 gm

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