After Popper, Kuhn and Feyerabend: Recent Issues in Theories of Scientific Method / Edition 1

by R. Nola, H. Sankey

Overview

Some think that issues to do with scientific method are last century's stale debate; Popper was an advocate of methodology, but Kuhn, Feyerabend, and others are alleged to have brought the debate about its status to an end. The papers in this volume show that issues in methodology are still very much alive. Some of the papers reinvestigate issues in the debate over methodology, while others set out new ways in which the debate has developed in the last decade. The book will be of interest to philosophers and scientists alike in the reassessment it provides of earlier debates about method and current directions of research.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781402002465
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	11/30/2001
Series:	Studies in History and Philosophy of Science , #15
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2000
Pages:	257
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.36(d)

Table of Contents

A Selective Survey of Theories of Scientific Method.- How We Know About Electrons.- The Rationality of the Chemical Revolution.- Kuhn, Bayes and ‘Theory-Choice’: How Revolutionary is Kuhn’s Account of Theoretical Change?.- With Friends Like These…, or What is Inductivism and Why is it Off the Agenda?.- Is Epistemology Adequate to the Task of Rational Theory Evaluation?.- Naturalism Logicized.- Methodological Pluralism, Normative Naturalism and the Realist Aim of Science.- Hard Problems in the Philosophy of Science: Idealisation and Commensurability.- Notes on Contributors.- Index of Names.