Correspondence Principle and Growth of Science (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1977)

This book is devoted to the problems of the growth of science. These prob lems, neglected for a long time by the philosophers of science, have become in the 60's and 70's a subject of vivid discussion. There are philosophers who stress only the dependence of science upon various sociological, psycho logical and other factors and deny any internal laws of the development of knowledge, like approaching the truth. The majority rejects such nihilism and searches for the laws of the growth of science. However, they often overlook the role of the Correspondence Principle which connects the suc cessive scientific theories. On the other hand, some authors, while stressing the role of this principle, overlook logical difficulties connected with it, e. g. the problem of the incompatibility of successive theories, of the falsity of some of their assumptions, etc. I believe the Correspondence Principle to be a basic principle of the pro gress of contemporary physics and, probably, of every advanced science. How ever, this principle must be properly interpreted and the above-mentioned logical difficulties must be solved. Their solution requires, as it seems, revealing the idealizational nature of the basic laws of science, in any case of the quantitative laws of advanced sciences. This point has been recently emphasized by some Polish philosophers, especially in Poznan."

General

Imprint:	Springer
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Episteme, 4
Release date:	October 2011
First published:	1977
Authors:	W. Krajewski
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 8mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	138
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1977
ISBN-13:	978-9401011808
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Philosophy of science
LSN:	940101180X
Barcode:	9789401011808

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