Philosophy of science and historical enquiry /
Philosophers have never been reluctant to analyse methodological problems which arise from the practice of other disciplines. The results of these analyses become provinces within philosophy, each being a second-order commentary on a first-order subject. Philosophy of science and history of science...
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Oxford [Oxfordshire] : New York :
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
1987.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Philosophy of science and history of science : the principal alternatives
- 2. Are philosophy of science and history of science mutually exclusive disciplines?: Kuhn's Gestalt analogy. Philosophy of science, history of science, and Bohr's principle of complimentarity. Kuhn's "puzzle-solving" model of historical explanation
- 3. More than a marriage of convenience: Confirmation and historical enquiry: Hempel's "Satisfaction criterion" of qualitative confirmation ; "Historical" views of confirmation. Theory appraisal and historical enquiry: Herschel on "undesigned scope" ; Reduction and history of science ; Theory replacement and the Correspondence principle
- 4. Prescriptive philosophy of science : a historical survey: Aristotle. Newton. Nineteenth-century methodologists : Herschel, Whewill, and Mill. Campbell. Operationalism. The programme of the Vienna Circle. Margenau's "constructionist" philosophy of science. Popper
- 5. Prescriptive philosophy of science and invioble principles: Changing evaluative standards and the continuity of a philosophy of science. Shapere's programme for a non-presuppositionist philosophy of science
- 6. The justifactory hierarchy: Evaluative standards: Criteria of acceptability ; The ideal of deductive explanation. Justification of evaluative standards: Whewell and the historicist standpoint ; Mill and the logicist standpoint ; Lakatos on the evaluation of historiographical research programmes ; Prospects for a moderate historicism. Evaluation procedures for the justification of evaluative standards: Laudan's evaluation procedure ; Other level 3 evaluation procedures. Justification of evaluation procedures for the selection of a philosophy of science
- 7. Philosophy of science without prescriptive intent: The descriptive alternative. Anticipations of descriptive philosophy of science: Hanson on the uses of scientific laws ; Toulmin on ideals of natural order ; Feyerabend on methodological anarchism ; Shapere on the development of scientific domains ; Laudan's reticulational model of justification
- 8. Holton on thematic analysis
- 9. History of science and descriptive philosophy of science.