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Structures in Science - Heuristic Patterns Based on Cognitive Structures An Advanced Textbook in Neo-Classical Philosophy of Science (Hardcover, 2001 ed.)
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Structures in Science - Heuristic Patterns Based on Cognitive Structures An Advanced Textbook in Neo-Classical Philosophy of Science (Hardcover, 2001 ed.)
Series: Synthese Library, 301
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The philosophy of science has lost its self-confidence, witness the
lack of advanced textbooks in contrast to the abundance of
elementary textbooks. Structures in Science is an advanced textbook
that explicates, updates, accommodates, and integrates the best
insights of logical-empiricism and its main critics. This
neo-classical approach' aims at providing heuristic patterns for
research. The book introduces four ideal types of research programs
(descriptive, explanatory, design, and explicative) and reanimates
the distinction between observational laws and proper theories. It
explicates various patterns of explanation by subsumption and
specification as well as structures in reductive and other types of
interlevel research. Its analysis of theory evaluation leads to new
characterizations of confirmation, empirical progress, and
pseudoscience. Partial analogies between progress in nomological
research (i.e. observational, referential, and theoretical truth
approximation, presented in detail in From Instrumentalism to
Constructive Realism, 2000) and progress in explicative and design
research emerge. Finally, special chapters are devoted to design
research programs, computational philosophy of science, the
structuralist approach to theories, and research ethics.
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