First published in 1976, this is a volume of studies on the
problems of theory-appraisal in the physical sciences - how and why
important theories are developed, changed and are replaced, and by
what criteria we judge one theory an advance on another. The volume
is introduced by a classic paper of Imre Lakatos's, which sets out
a theory for tackling these problems - the methodology of
scientific research programmes. Five contributors then test this
theory against particular and celebrated case-studies in the
history of the physical sciences (particularly in the nineteenth
century). The volume ends with a characteristically forceful and
original critique of the whole enterprise by Paul Feyerabend. the
book is a companion volume to Method and Appraisal in Economics.
Both are natural sequels to Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge
and attempt to work out in particular cases the implications of
some of the theories presented in that book.
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