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Polish Essays in the Philosophy of the Natural Sciences

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  • © 1982

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Editors:
  1. Władysław Krajewski

    1. Dept. of Philosophy, Warsaw University, Poland

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Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 68)

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Table of contents (35 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxviii
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  2. General Methodological Problems

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Reflections on Science and Rationality

      • Stefan Amsterdamski
      Pages 3-17

    3. The Epistemological and Methodological Sense of the Concept of Rationality

      • Alina Motycka
      Pages 19-30

    4. On Two Kinds of Conventionalism with Respect to Empirical Sciences

      • Andrzej Siemianowski
      Pages 31-42

    5. Realism and Instrumentalism: On a Priori Conditions of Science

      • Wiktor Niedźwiedzki
      Pages 43-50

    6. Once More about Empirical Support

      • Irena Szumilewicz-Lachman
      Pages 51-62

    7. The Context of Discovery and the Context of Justification: A Reappraisal

      • Ewa Chmielecka
      Pages 63-74

    8. Continuity and Anticumulative Changes in the Growth of Science

      • Elżbieta Pietruska-Madej
      Pages 75-90

    9. Some Remarks in Defense of the Incommensurability Thesis

      • Andrzej Łodyński
      Pages 91-102

    10. Marxism and the Controversy over the Development of Science

      • Andrzej Miś
      Pages 103-111

    11. Are there Definitively Falsifying Procedures in Science?

      • Jan Such
      Pages 113-126

    12. The Pluralistic Approach to Empirical Testing and the Special Forms of Experiment

      • Wojciech Patryas
      Pages 127-133

    13. Dialectical Correspondence and Essential Truth

      • Izabella Nowakowa
      Pages 135-146

    14. Testing Idealizational Laws

      • Jerzy Szymański
      Pages 147-151

    15. Practical Idealization

      • Makary Krzysztof Stasiak
      Pages 153-165

  3. Formal Analysis

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-167
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    2. An Interpretation of a Concept in Science by a Set of Operational Procedures

      • J. M. Żytkow
      Pages 169-185

    3. A Formal Definition of the Concept of Simplicity

      • Witold Strawiński
      Pages 187-195

    4. Characteristics of Additive Quantities

      • Elżbieta Kałuszyńska
      Pages 197-207
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Dept. of Philosophy, Warsaw University, Poland

    Władysław Krajewski

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Polish Essays in the Philosophy of the Natural Sciences

  • Editors: Władysław Krajewski

  • Series Title: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7705-1

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dorecht, Holland 1982

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-1286-8Published: 30 April 1982

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-277-1287-5Published: 30 April 1982

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-7705-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0068-0346

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-7942

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVIII, 491

  • Additional Information: Originally published in Polish

  • Topics: Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of the Social Sciences

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