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Is Science Progressive?

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Authors:
  1. Ilkka Niiniluoto

    1. Department of Philosophy, University of Helsinki, Finland

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Part of the book series: Synthese Library (SYLI, volume 177)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. The Nature of Science

    • Ilkka Niiniluoto
    Pages 1-9

  3. How is Philosophy Possible as a Science?

    • Ilkka Niiniluoto
    Pages 10-17

  4. Notes on Popper as Follower of Whewell and Peirce

    • Ilkka Niiniluoto
    Pages 18-60

  5. The Evolution of Knowledge

    • Ilkka Niiniluoto
    Pages 61-74

  6. Scientific Progress

    • Ilkka Niiniluoto
    Pages 75-110

  7. The Growth of Theories: Comments on the Structuralist Approach

    • Ilkka Niiniluoto
    Pages 111-158

  8. Truthlikeness, Realism, and Progressive Theory-Change

    • Ilkka Niiniluoto
    Pages 159-192

  9. The Growth of Knowledge in Mathematics

    • Ilkka Niiniluoto
    Pages 193-210

  10. Realism, Worldmaking, and the Social Sciences

    • Ilkka Niiniluoto
    Pages 211-225

  11. Finalization, Applied Science, and Science Policy

    • Ilkka Niiniluoto
    Pages 226-243

  12. Paradigms and Problem-Solving in Operations Research

    • Ilkka Niiniluoto
    Pages 244-257

  13. Remarks on Technological Progress

    • Ilkka Niiniluoto
    Pages 258-266

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 267-272
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About this book

This collection brings together several essays which have been written between the years 197 5 and 1983. During that period I have been occupied with the attempt to find a satisfactory explicate for the notion of tnithlike­ ness or verisimilitude. The technical results of this search have partly appeared elsewhere, and I am also working on a systematic presentation of them in a companion volume to this book: Truthlikeness (forthcoming hopefully in 1985). The essays collected in this book are less formal and more philos­ ophical: they all explore various aspects of the idea that progress in science is associated with an increase in the truthlikeness of its results. Even though they do not exhaust the problem area of scientific change, together they constitute a step in the direction which I find most promising in the defence of critical scientific realism. * Chapter 1 appeared originally in Finnish as the opening article of a new journal Tiede 2000 (no. 1 I 1980) - a Finnish counterpart to journals such as Science and Scientific American. This explains its programmatic character. It tries to give a compact answer to the question 'What is science?', and serves therefore as an introduction to the problem area of the later chapters. Chapter 2 is a revised translation of my inaugural lecture for the chair of Theoretical Philosophy in the University of Helsinki on April 8, 1981. It appeared in Finnish inParnasso 31 (1981), pp.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Philosophy, University of Helsinki, Finland

    Ilkka Niiniluoto

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Is Science Progressive?

  • Authors: Ilkka Niiniluoto

  • Series Title: Synthese Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1978-0

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1984

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-1835-8Published: 30 September 1984

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-8404-0Published: 30 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-1978-0Published: 17 April 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0166-6991

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-8292

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 272

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

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