Scientific Progress - A Study Concerning the Nature of the Relation Between Successive Scientific Theories (Hardcover, 4th Corrected ed. 2007, Corr. 3rd printing 2008)

Kuhn and Feyerabend formulated the problem. Dilworth provides the solution. In this highly original and insightful book, Craig Dilworth answers all the questions raised by the incommensurability thesis. Logical empiricism cannot account for theory conflict. Popperianism cannot account for how one theory is a progression beyond another. Dilworth's Perspectivist conception of science does both. While remaining within the bounds of classical philosophy of science, Dilworth does away with the logicism of his competitors. On the Perspectivist view theory conflict is not contradiction, and theory superiority does not consist in deductive subsumption or set-theoretic inclusion. Here the relation between theories is analogous to the application of individual concepts, and the question of theory superiority becomes one of relative applicability. scientific progress is based on both rational and empirical considerations.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Synthese Library, 153
Release date:	October 2008
First published:	September 2008
Authors:	Craig Dilworth
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	306
Edition:	4th Corrected ed. 2007, Corr. 3rd printing 2008
ISBN-13:	978-1-4020-6353-4
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > History of science Promotions
LSN:	1-4020-6353-9
Barcode:	9781402063534

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