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Type de document: | Livre |
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Tous les auteurs / collaborateurs: |
John Losee |
ISBN: | 9780198700555 0198700555 |
Numéro OCLC: | 920328736 |
Notes: | Indexes. |
Description: | VIII, 314 p. ; 24 cm |
Contenu: | Introduction ; 1. Aristotle's Philosophy of Science ; 2. The Pythagorean Orientation ; 3. The Ideal of Deductive Systemization ; 4. Atomism and the Concept of Underlying Mechanism ; 5. Affirmation and Development of Aristotle's Method in the Medieval Period ; 6. The Debate over Saving the Appearances ; 7. The Seventeenth-Century Attack on Aristotelian Philosophy ; 8. Newton's Axiomatic Method ; 9. Analysis of the Implications of the New Science for a Theory of Scientific Method ; 10. Inductivism v the Hypothetico-Deductive View of Science ; 11. Mathematical Positivism and Conventionlism ; 12. Logical Reconstructivist Philosophy of Science ; 13. Orthodoxy under Attack ; 14. Theories of Scientific Progress ; 15. Explanation, Causation, and Unification ; 16. Confirmation and Evidential Support ; 17. The Justification of Evaluative Standards ; 18. The Debate over Scientific Realism ; 19. Descriptive Philosophies of Science ; Bibliography ; Index |
Responsabilité: | John Losee. |
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Well known and widely used textbook ... As in the earlier editions the same writing style and format for organizing the material are preserved. As a result the book rigidly stays at the level of presenting only carefully condensed factual presentations in serial order of the individual authors involved, and scrupulously avoids any critical evaluations or comparisons of the philosophies of science sketched out for the reader. * Richard J. Blackwell, Saint Louis University, Physis, Vol. XXI (1994) * Lire la suite...

