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Scientific Progress - A Study Concerning the Nature of the Relation Between Successive Scientific Theories (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1981)
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Scientific Progress - A Study Concerning the Nature of the Relation Between Successive Scientific Theories (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1981)
Series: Synthese Library, 153
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For the philosopher interested in the idea of objective knowledge
of the real world, the nature of science is of special importance,
for science, and more particularly physics, is today considered to
be paradigmatic in its affording of such knowledge. And no
understand ing of science is complete until it includes an
appreciation of the nature of the relation between successive
scientific theories-that is, until it includes a conception of
scientific progress. Now it might be suggested by some that there
are a variety of ways in which science progresses, or that there
are a number of different notions of scientific progress, not all
of which concern the relation between successive scientific
theories. For example, it may be thought that science progresses
through the application of scientific method to areas where it has
not previously been applied, or, through the development of
individual theories. However, it is here suggested that the
application of the methods of science to new areas does not concern
forward progress so much as lateral expansion, and that the
provision of a conception of how individual theories develop would
lack the generality expected of an account concerning the progress
of science itself."
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