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Scientific Progress

A Study Concerning the Nature of the Relation Between Successive Scientific Theories

  • Craig Dilworth
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Part of the Synthese Library book series (SYLI, volume 153)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages I-9
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  2. Introduction
    Craig Dilworth
    Pages 11-13
  3. The Deductive Model
    Craig Dilworth
    Pages 14-17
  4. The Basis of the Logical Empiricist Conception of Science
    Craig Dilworth
    Pages 18-21
  5. The Basis of the Popperian Conception of Science
    Craig Dilworth
    Pages 22-29
  6. The Logical Empiricist Conception of Scientific Progress
    Craig Dilworth
    Pages 30-36
  7. The Popperian Conception of Scientific Progress
    Craig Dilworth
    Pages 37-51
  8. Popper, Lakatos, and the Transcendence of the Deductive Model
    Craig Dilworth
    Pages 52-59
  9. Kuhn, Feyerabend, and Incommensurability
    Craig Dilworth
    Pages 60-65
  10. The Gestalt Model
    Craig Dilworth
    Pages 66-76
  11. The Perspectivist Conception of Science
    Craig Dilworth
    Pages 77-99
  12. Development of the Perspectivist Conception in the Context of the Kinetic Theory of Gases
    Craig Dilworth
    Pages 100-117
  13. The Set-Theoretic Conception of Science
    Craig Dilworth
    Pages 118-132
  14. Application of the Perspectivist Conception to the Views of Newton Kepler and Galileo
    Craig Dilworth
    Pages 133-141
  15. Back Matter
    Pages 142-252
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About this book

Introduction

Featuring the Gestalt Model and the Perspectivist conception of science, this book is unique in its non-relativistic development of the idea that successive scientific theories are logically incommensurable. This edition includes four new appendices in which the central ideas of the book are applied to subatomic physics, the distinction between laws and theories, the relation between absolute and relative conceptions of space, and the environmental issue of sustainable development.

Keywords

Karl R. Popper Rudolf Carnap analogy concept edition idea issue knowledge model ontology physics science space subject sustainable development

Authors and affiliations

  • Craig Dilworth
    • 1
  1. 1.Department of PhilosophyUppsala UniversitySweden

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