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After Popper, Kuhn and Feyerabend

Recent Issues in Theories of Scientific Method

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Editors:
  1. Robert Nola

    1. University of Auckland, New Zealand

  2. Howard Sankey

    1. University of Melbourne, Australia

Part of the book series: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (AUST, volume 15)

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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.

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. A Selective Survey of Theories of Scientific Method

    • Robert Nola, Howard Sankey
    Pages 1-65

  3. How We Know about Electrons

    • John D. Norton
    Pages 67-97

  4. The Rationality of the Chemical Revolution

    • Andrew Pyle
    Pages 99-124

  5. Kuhn, Bayes and ‘Theory-Choice’: How Revolutionary is Kuhn’s Account of Theoretical Change?

    • John Worrall
    Pages 125-151

  6. With Friends Like These ..., or What is Inductivism and Why is it Off the Agenda?

    • John F. Fox
    Pages 153-164

  7. Is Epistemology Adequate to the Task of Rational Theory Evaluation?

    • Larry Laudan
    Pages 165-175

  8. Naturalism Logicized

    • Kevin T. Kelly
    Pages 177-210

  9. Methodological Pluralism, Normative Naturalism and the Realist Aim of Science

    • Howard Sankey
    Pages 211-229

  10. Hard Problems in the Philosophy of Science: Idealisation and Commensurability

    • Malcolm R. Forster
    Pages 231-250

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 251-257
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Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Auckland, New Zealand

    Robert Nola

  • University of Melbourne, Australia

    Howard Sankey

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: After Popper, Kuhn and Feyerabend

  • Book Subtitle: Recent Issues in Theories of Scientific Method

  • Editors: Robert Nola, Howard Sankey

  • Series Title: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3935-9

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2000

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-6032-2Published: 31 March 2000

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-0246-5Published: 30 November 2001

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-3935-9Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1871-7381

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-1958

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 257

  • Topics: Philosophy of Science, Epistemology, History, general, Philosophy, general

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