عنوان

Imre Lakatos and Theories of Scientific Change

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9400930259

(Number (ISBN

9401078602

(Number (ISBN

9789400930254

(Number (ISBN

9789401078603

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b546595

Title Proper

Imre Lakatos and Theories of Scientific Change

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Kostas Gavroglu, Yorgos Goudaroulis, Pantelis Nicolacopoulos.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Dordrecht

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Springer Netherlands

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1989

Series Title

Boston studies in the philosophy of science, 111.

Text of Note

I --;The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: A Retrospect --;Deductive Heuristics --;Development of Science as a Change of Types --;Methodology and Ontology --;Imre Lakatos in China --;On the Characterization of Cognitive Progress --;II --;Continuity and Discontinuity in the Definition of a Disciplinary Field: The Case of XXth Century Physics --;Determinism, Probability and Randomness in Classical Statistical Physics --;The Emergence of a Research Programme in Classical Thermodynamics --;The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes and Some Developments in High Energy Physics --;Many-Particle Physics: Calculational Complications that Become a Blessing for Methodology --;The Relative Autonomy of Theoretical Science and the Role of Crucial Experiments in the Development of Superconductivity Theory --;III --;Lakatos on the Evaluation of Scientific Theories --;Methodological Sophisticationism: A Degenerating Project --;Through the Looking Glass: Philosophy, Research Programmes and the Scientific Community --;A Critical Consideration of the Lakatosian Concepts: 'Mature' and 'Immature' Science --;Bridge Structures and the Borderline Between the Internal and External History of Science --;IV --;Corroboration, Verisimilitude, and the Success of Science --;Machine Models for the Growth of Knowledge: Theory Nets in PROLOG --;Louis Althusser and Joseph D. Sneed: A Strange Encounter in Philosophy of Science? --;On Incommensurability --;Partial Interpretation, Meaning Variance, and Incommensurability --;Scientific Discovery and Commensurability of Meaning --;V --;Proofs and Refutations: A Reassessment --;Counterfactual Reduction --;Research Programmes and Paradigms as Dialogue Structures --;Philosophy of Science and the Technological Dimension of Science --;Falsificationism Looked at from an 'Economic' Point of View --;VI --;The Bayesian Alternative to the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes --;Frege and Popper: Two Critics of Psychologism --;Has Popper Been a Good Thing? --;Popper's Propensities: An Ontological Interpretation of Probability.

Text of Note

How happy it is to recall Imre Lakatos. That the new friends include a dozen scientific, historical and philosophical scholars from Greece would have pleased Lakatos very much, and with an essay from China, he would have smiled all the more.

Genetic epistemology.

Philosophy (General)

Science -- Philosophy.

Class number

Book number

edited by Kostas Gavroglu, Yorgos Goudaroulis, Pantelis Nicolacopoulos.

Kostas Gavroglu

Pantelis Nicolacopoulos

Yorgos Goudaroulis

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[Book]

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