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The Structure and Growth of Scientific Knowledge

A Study in the Methodology of Epistemic Appraisal

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Authors:
  1. G. L. Pandit

    1. Department of Philosophy, University of Delhi, India

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Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 73)

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
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  2. Introduction: Methodology, Ideology, and Scientific Revolutions

    • G. L. Pandit
    Pages 1-15

  3. Epistemic Structuralism: The Limit to Radical Alternatives to Traditional Epistemology

    • G. L. Pandit
    Pages 16-39

  4. Problems of Structure and Growth: Towards an Interactive Model of the Growth of Scientific Knowledge

    • G. L. Pandit
    Pages 40-110

  5. Consequences and Alternative Methodologies

    • G. L. Pandit
    Pages 111-143

  6. The Nature of Methodological Variance: From Commensurable Canons to Incommensurable Strategies

    • G. L. Pandit
    Pages 144-183

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 184-231
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About this book

Professor Pandit, working among the admirable group of philosophers at the University of Delhi, has written a fundamental criticism and a constructive re-interpretation of all that has been preserved as serious epistemological and methodological reflections on the sciences in modern Western philosoph- from the times of Galileo, Newton, Descartes and Leibniz to those of Russell and Wittgenstein, Carnap and Popper, and, we need hardly add, onward to the troubling relativisms and reconstructions of historical epistemologies in the works of Hanson, Kuhn, Lakatos and Feyerabend. His themes are intrigu­ ing, set forth as they are with masterly case studies of physics and the life sciences, and within an original conceptual framework for philosophical analysis of the processes, functions, and structures of scientific knowing. Pandit's contributions deserve thoughtful examination. For our part, we wish to point to some among them: (1) an interactive articulation of subjective and objective factors of both problems and theories in the course of scientific development; (2) a striking contrast between the explanatory power of a scientific theory and its 'resolving power', i. e.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Philosophy, University of Delhi, India

    G. L. Pandit

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Structure and Growth of Scientific Knowledge

  • Book Subtitle: A Study in the Methodology of Epistemic Appraisal

  • Authors: G. L. Pandit

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

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7680-2

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1983

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-1434-3Published: 31 December 1982

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-8375-3Published: 25 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-7680-2Published: 29 June 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0068-0346

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-7942

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXII, 231

  • Topics: Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Language

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