عنوان

The Structure and Growth of Scientific Knowledge :

شابک

9048183758

شابک

9401576807

شابک

9789048183753

شابک

9789401576802

شماره

b592103

عنوان اصلي

The Structure and Growth of Scientific Knowledge :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

a Study in the Methodology of Epistemic Appraisal

نام نخستين پديدآور

by G.L. Pandit.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Dordrecht

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Springer Netherlands : Imprint : Springer

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

1983

عنوان فروست

Boston studies in the philosophy of science, 73.

متن يادداشت

1 / Introduction: Methodology, Ideology, and Scientific Revolutions --; 2 / Epistemic Structuralism: The Limit to Radical Alternatives to Traditional Epistemology --; 3 / Problems of Structure and Growth: Towards an Interactive Model of The Growth of Scientific Knowledge --; 4 / Consequences and Alternative Methodologies --; 5 / The Nature of Methodological Variance: From Commensurable Canons to Incommensurable Strategies --; Notes --; Name Index.

متن يادداشت

Professor Pandit, working among the admirable group of philosophers at the University of Delhi, has written a fundamental criticism and a constructive re-interpretation of all that has been preserved as serious epistemological and methodological reflections on the sciences in modern Western philosoph- from the times of Galileo, Newton, Descartes and Leibniz to those of Russell and Wittgenstein, Carnap and Popper, and, we need hardly add, onward to the troubling relativisms and reconstructions of historical epistemologies in the works of Hanson, Kuhn, Lakatos and Feyerabend. His themes are intrigu ing, set forth as they are with masterly case studies of physics and the life sciences, and within an original conceptual framework for philosophical analysis of the processes, functions, and structures of scientific knowing. Pandit's contributions deserve thoughtful examination. For our part, we wish to point to some among them: (1) an interactive articulation of subjective and objective factors of both problems and theories in the course of scientific development; (2) a striking contrast between the explanatory power of a scientific theory and its 'resolving power', i. e.

موضوع مستند نشده

Linguistics -- Philosophy.

موضوع مستند نشده

Philosophy (General)

موضوع مستند نشده

Science -- Philosophy.

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

by G.L. Pandit.

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

G L Pandit

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y