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Correspondence Principle and Growth of Science

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  1. Władysław Krajewski
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Part of the book series: Episteme (EPIS, volume 4)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Correspondence Principle

    • Władysław Krajewski
    Pages 1-12

  3. Idealization and Factualization

    • Władysław Krajewski
    Pages 13-29

  4. Reduction

    • Władysław Krajewski
    Pages 30-40

  5. Correspondence Relation

    • Władysław Krajewski
    Pages 41-54

  6. The Problem of the Incommensurability and Relations Among Theories

    • Władysław Krajewski
    Pages 55-68

  7. The Types of Methodological Empiricism

    • Władysław Krajewski
    Pages 69-82

  8. Revolutions and Continuity

    • Władysław Krajewski
    Pages 83-100

  9. Relative and Absolute Truth

    • Władysław Krajewski
    Pages 101-114

  10. Internal and External History of Science

    • Władysław Krajewski
    Pages 115-125

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 126-138
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About this book

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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Correspondence Principle and Growth of Science

  • Authors: Władysław Krajewski

  • Series Title: Episteme

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1178-5

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1977

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-0770-3Due: 31 March 1977

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-1180-8Published: 14 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-1178-5Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 138

  • Topics: Philosophy of Science

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