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It is fast becoming a cliche that scientific discovery is being rediscovered. For two philosophical generations (that of the Founders and that of the Followers of the logical positivist and logical empiricist movements), discovery had been consigned to the domain of the intractable, the ineffable, the inscrutable. The philosophy of science was focused on the so-called context of justification as its proper domain. More recently, as the exclusivity of the logical reconstruc tion program in philosophy of science came under question, and as the critique of justification developed within the framework of logical and epistemological analysis, the old question of scientific discovery, which had been put on the back burner, began to emerge once again. Emphasis on the relation of the history of science to the philosophy of science, and attention to the question of theory change and theory replacement, also served to legitimate a new concern with the origins of scientific change to be found within discovery and invention. How welcome then to see what a wide range of issues and what a broad representation of philosophers and historians of science have been brought together in the present two volumes of the Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science! For what these volumes achieve, in effect, is the continuation of a tradition which had once been strong in the philosophy of science - namely, that tradition which addressed the question of scientific discovery as a central question in the understanding of science.
- Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Introductory Essay: Scientific Discovery and the Future of Philosophy of Science
Pages 1-59
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The Character of Scientific Change
Pages 61-116
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Discovery and Rule-Books
Pages 117-137
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Analysis as a Method of Discovery During the Scientific Revolution
Pages 139-157
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The Method of Analysis in Mathematics
Pages 159-172
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Scientific Discovery, Logic, and Rationality
- Editors
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- Thomas Nickles
- Series Title
- Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
- Series Volume
- 56
- Copyright
- 1980
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Copyright Holder
- D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland
- eBook ISBN
- 978-94-009-8986-3
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-94-009-8986-3
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-90-277-1069-7
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-90-277-1070-3
- Series ISSN
- 0068-0346
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XII, 388
- Topics
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