Revisiting Discovery And Justification
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Revisiting Discovery And Justification
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Author : Jutta Schickore
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2006-01-27
Revisiting Discovery And Justification written by Jutta Schickore and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-27 with Philosophy categories.
The distinction between the contexts of discovery and justification has left a turbulent wake in the philosophy of science. This book recognizes the need to re-open the debate about the nature, development, and significance of the context distinction, about its merits and flaws. The discussion clears the ground for the productive and fruitful integration of these new developments into philosophy of science.
Contemporary Perspectives In Philosophy And Methodology Of Science
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Author : Wenceslao J. González
language : en
Publisher: Netbiblo
Release Date : 2006
Contemporary Perspectives In Philosophy And Methodology Of Science written by Wenceslao J. González and has been published by Netbiblo this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Science categories.
Nowadays, philosophy and methodology of science appear as a combination of novelty and continuity. This blend is clear both in the general approaches to science (those thought of as any science) and in the specific perspectives on every science, either formal or empirical. There are new topics for philosophical reflection, such as key issues in philosophy of medicine and central problems raised by neuroscience. Thus, new contents have brought attention to aspects that previously went almost unnoticed. In addition, there are new angles for philosophical study, such as the repercussion of society on scientific activity (in aims, processes, and results). But the background of the main philosophical and methodological trends of the twentieth century is, in many ways, still in place.
Rethinking Scientific Change And Theory Comparison
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Author : Léna Soler
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2008-05-29
Rethinking Scientific Change And Theory Comparison written by Léna Soler and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-05-29 with Science categories.
LÉNA SOLER This volume is a collection of essays devoted to the analysis of scientific change and stability. It represents the most recent thinking on the topic of incommensurability and scientific theory change. It explores the balance and tension that exists between commensurability and continuity (or stabilities) on the one hand, and incommen- rability and discontinuity (or ruptures) on the other. And it discusses some central epistemological consequences regarding the nature of scientific progress, rationality and realism. With respect to these topics, it investigates a number of new avenues and revisits some familiar issues, with a focus on the history and philosophy of physics, in a way that is informed by developments in cognitive sciences as well as the claims of “New experimentalists”. The essays in this book are fully revised versions of papers which were ori- nally presented at the international colloquium, “Repenser l’évaluation comparative des théories scientifiques: stabilités, ruptures, incommensurabilités?” organized by Léna Soler and Paul Hoyningen-Huene at the University of Nancy, France, in June 2004. Each paper is followed by a critical comment, which either represents an opposing viewpoint or suggests some developments. The conference was a striking example of the sort of genuine dialogue that can take place between philosophers of science, historians of science and scientists who come from different traditions and endorse opposing commitments. I hope that this is evident in the book too and that it will constitute one of its attractions.
Epsa Epistemology And Methodology Of Science
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Author : Mauricio Suárez
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2010-01-14
Epsa Epistemology And Methodology Of Science written by Mauricio Suárez and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-14 with Science categories.
These volumes collect a selection of papers presented at the Founding Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association meeting in Madrid. The volumes provide an excellent overview of the state of the art in philosophy of science as practised nowadays in different European countries.
Kuhn S Structure Of Scientific Revolutions 50 Years On
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Author : William J. Devlin
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-05-18
Kuhn S Structure Of Scientific Revolutions 50 Years On written by William J. Devlin and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-18 with Science categories.
In 1962, the publication of Thomas Kuhn’s Structure ‘revolutionized’ the way one conducts philosophical and historical studies of science. Through the introduction of both memorable and controversial notions, such as paradigms, scientific revolutions, and incommensurability, Kuhn argued against the traditionally accepted notion of scientific change as a progression towards the truth about nature, and instead substituted the idea that science is a puzzle solving activity, operating under paradigms, which become discarded after it fails to respond accordingly to anomalous challenges and a rival paradigm. Kuhn’s Structure has sold over 1.4 million copies and the Times Literary Supplement named it one of the “Hundred Most Influential Books since the Second World War.” Now, fifty years after this groundbreaking work was published, this volume offers a timely reappraisal of the legacy of Kuhn’s book and an investigation into what Structure offers philosophical, historical, and sociological studies of science in the future.
Reconsidering Historical Epistemology
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Author : Matteo Vagelli
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2024-06-27
Reconsidering Historical Epistemology written by Matteo Vagelli and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-27 with Philosophy categories.
This book explores the key conceptual stakes underpinning historical epistemology. The strong Anglophone interest in historical epistemology, since at least the 1990s, is typically attributed to its simultaneously philosophical and historical synthetic approach to the study of science. Yet this account, considered by critics to be an unreflective assumption, has prevented historical epistemology from developing a clear understanding and definition, especially regarding how precisely historical and philosophical reflections on the sciences should be combined. Thus, this book uniquely analyses how the problems and tensions inherent to the “contemporary” phase of historical epistemology can be clarified by reference to the “classical” French phase. The archaeological method of Michel Foucault, which draws on and transforms fundamental insights by Gaston Bachelard and Georges Canguilhem, is used to exert an enduring influence on the field—especially through the work of Ian Hacking and his philosophical cum historical analyses of “styles of scientific reasoning”. Though this book is of great value to academic specialists and graduate students, the fact it addresses questions broad in scope ensures it is also relevant to a range of scholars in many disciplines and will provoke discussion among those interested in foundational issues in history and philosophy of science. Vagelli’s book provides a both unique and uniquely important window into historical epistemology and its relation to contemporary philosophy of science. Unique because nowhere else can one find a single work that treats the range of topics that he covers. Uniquely important because Vagelli’s clear, concise, and comprehensive survey details key interrelationships among a range of American, British, and European views currently in play regarding historical epistemology and philosophy of science as well as the institutional and intellectual vectors driving their associated epistemological positions – Paul Roth, UC Santa Cruz, USA Uneasily, the history and philosophy of science have bolstered and undermined each other for all too long. Would history offer nothing but potted episodes to confirm or contradict transhistorical claims about science? Would philosophy dismantle uncritical historicist accounts of scientific discoveries? Historical epistemology offers a more integrated path, at once a history of the present and a philosophy of the past. Matteo Vagelli draws together the insights of the Francophone, Anglophone and Germanophone traditions to give us a sparkling, lucid account of seeing our standards of scientific understanding as developing across time, always asking: how did we come to our standards of demonstration and argument? – Peter Galison, Harvard University, USA
A Cognitive Ethnography Of Knowledge And Material Culture
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Author : Mads Solberg
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-06-15
A Cognitive Ethnography Of Knowledge And Material Culture written by Mads Solberg and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-15 with Psychology categories.
This cognitive ethnography examines how scientists create meaning about biological phenomena through experimental practices in the laboratory, offering a frontline perspective on how new insights come to life. An exercise in the anthropology of knowledge, this story follows a community of biologists in Western Norway in their quest to build a novel experimental system for research on Lepeoptheirus salmonis, a parasite that has become a major pest in salmon aquaculture. The book offers a window on the making of this material culture of science, and how biological phenomena and their representations are skillfully transformed and made meaningful within a rich cognitive ecology. Conventional accounts of experiments see their purpose as mainly auxiliary, as handmaidens to theory. By looking closely at experimental activities and their materiality, this book shows how experimentation contributes to knowledge production through a broader set of epistemic actions. In drawing on a combination of approaches from anthropology and cognitive science, it offers a unique contribution to the fields of cultural psychology, psychological anthropology, science and technology studies and the philosophy of science.
Psychology S Territories
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Author : Mitchell Ash
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2007-04-02
Psychology S Territories written by Mitchell Ash and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-04-02 with Psychology categories.
This volume is the final publication of the Interdisciplinary Working Group, “Psychological Thought and Practice in Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspective,” sponsored by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities from October 2000 until March 2004.
Explanatory Pluralism
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Author : C. Mantzavinos
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2016-05-26
Explanatory Pluralism written by C. Mantzavinos and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-26 with Philosophy categories.
This book proposes a new philosophical theory of scientific explanation by developing and defending the position of explanatory pluralism.
Through The Mirrors Of Science
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Author : Francesco Coniglione
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2013-05-02
Through The Mirrors Of Science written by Francesco Coniglione and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-02 with Philosophy categories.
Is the objective that the European Union set itself in 2000, that is, to be «the most competitive knowledge-based society and economy» by 2010 still realistic? The momentous year has arrived, but it is discouraging to note that very few steps have been made in the direction that was fixed. What has gone wrong? Were the philosophical, epistemological and economic conditions adequate to achieve the desired result? This book – the result of a research project commissioned by the European Commission – critically investigates the society of knowledge and the way in which the European Union has proceeded towards it, examining first of all the premises and the contributions that the disciplines of Science and Technological Studies can provide. In this way, we have proposed innovative theoretical and epistemological bases for a multidisciplinary approach – making use of the Modelling Approach to Science – and therefore insisting on the function that human sciences can have for a society of knowledge that hinges not so much on an industrialist scenario, but a humanist one that eschews hyper-specialization and instead privileges creativity, flexibility, imagination and innovation economy.