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This volume presents a collection of essays devoted to the analysis
of scientific change and stability. It explores the balance and
tension that exist between commensurability and continuity on the
one hand and incommensurability and discontinuity on the other. The
book constitutes fully revised versions of papers that were
originally presented at an international colloquium held at the
University of Nancy, France, in June 2004.
Causation and Laws of Nature is a collection of articles which
represents current research on the metaphysics of causation and
laws of nature, mostly by authors working in or active in the
Australasian region. The book provides an overview of current work
on the theory of causation, including counterfactual, singularist,
nomological and causal process approaches. It also covers work on
the nature of laws of nature, with special emphasis on the
scientific essentialist theory that laws of nature are, at base,
the fundamental dispositions or capacities of natural kinds of
things. Because the book represents a good cross-section of authors
currently working on these themes in the Australasian region, it
conveys something of the interest and excitement of an active
philosophical debate between advocates of several different
research programmes in the area.
Incommensurability and Related Matters draws together some of the
most distinguished contributors to the critical literature on the
problem of the incommensurability of scientific theories. It
addresses all the various problems raised by the problem of
incommensurability, such as meaning change, reference of
theoretical terms, scientific realism and anti-realism, rationality
of theory choice, cognitive aspects of conceptual change, as well
as exploring the broader implications of incommensurability for
cultural difference. While it offers new work, and new directions
of discussion, on the topic of incommensurability, the book also
recapitulates the history of the discussion of the topic that has
taken place within the literature on incommensurability.
The volume is a collection of essays devoted to the analysis of
scientific change and stability. It explores the balance and
tension that exists between commensurability and continuity on the
one hand, and incommensurability and discontinuity on the other.
And it discusses some central epistemological consequences
regarding the nature of scientific progress, rationality and
realism. In relation to these topics, it investigates a number of
new avenues and revisits some familiar issues, with a focus on the
history and philosophy of physics, and an emphasis on developments
in cognitive sciences as well as on the claims of new
experimentalists.The book is constituted of fully revised versions
of papers which were originally presented at the international
colloquium held at the University of Nancy, France, in June 2004.
Each paper is followed by a critical commentary.
Some think that issues to do with scientific method are last
century's stale debate; Popper was an advocate of methodology, but
Kuhn, Feyerabend, and others are alleged to have brought the debate
about its status to an end. The papers in this volume show that
issues in methodology are still very much alive. Some of the papers
reinvestigate issues in the debate over methodology, while others
set out new ways in which the debate has developed in the last
decade. The book will be of interest to philosophers and scientists
alike in the reassessment it provides of earlier debates about
method and current directions of research.
Incommensurability and Related Matters draws together some of the
most distinguished contributors to the critical literature on the
problem of the incommensurability of scientific theories. It
addresses all the various problems raised by the problem of
incommensurability, such as meaning change, reference of
theoretical terms, scientific realism and anti-realism, rationality
of theory choice, cognitive aspects of conceptual change, as well
as exploring the broader implications of incommensurability for
cultural difference. While it offers new work, and new directions
of discussion, on the topic of incommensurability, the book also
recapitulates the history of the discussion of the topic that has
taken place within the literature on incommensurability.
Some think that issues to do with scientific method are last
century's stale debate; Popper was an advocate of methodology, but
Kuhn, Feyerabend, and others are alleged to have brought the debate
about its status to an end. The papers in this volume show that
issues in methodology are still very much alive. Some of the papers
reinvestigate issues in the debate over methodology, while others
set out new ways in which the debate has developed in the last
decade. The book will be of interest to philosophers and scientists
alike in the reassessment it provides of earlier debates about
method and current directions of research.
Causation and Laws of Nature is a collection of articles which
represents current research on the metaphysics of causation and
laws of nature, mostly by authors working in or active in the
Australasian region. The book provides an overview of current work
on the theory of causation, including counterfactual, singularist,
nomological and causal process approaches. It also covers work on
the nature of laws of nature, with special emphasis on the
scientific essentialist theory that laws of nature are, at base,
the fundamental dispositions or capacities of natural kinds of
things. Because the book represents a good cross-section of authors
currently working on these themes in the Australasian region, it
conveys something of the interest and excitement of an active
philosophical debate between advocates of several different
research programmes in the area.
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