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Author:   Robert S. Cohen ,  P.K. Feyerabend ,  Marx W. Wartofsky
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Kluwer Academic Publishers
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1976
Volume:   39
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 3.90cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   2.380kg
ISBN:  

9789027706553

ISBN 10:   9027706557
Pages:   768
Publication Date:   31 October 1976
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Imre Lakatos (1922–1974): Philosopher of Mathematics and Philosopher of Science.- The Lakatosian Revolution.- Immediate Perception.- On Imre Lakatos.- Lakatos One and Lakatos Two: An ppreciation.- William Whewell and the Concept of Scientific Revolution.- How Can One Testimony Corroborate Another?.- Constraints on Science.- Research Programs, Rationality, and Ethics.- Introduction: Culture, Cultural System and Science.- On the Critique of Scientific Reason.- The Young Einstein and The Old Einstein.- An Ethic of Cognition.- Instrumentalism and Its Critique: A Reappraisal.- Imre Lakatos: Some Recollections.- Is Falsifiability the Touchstone of Scientific Rationality? Karl Popper versus Inductivism.- Ancient Geometrical Analysis and Modern Logic.- The Development of Logical Probability.- Descartes’ Rules of Impact and Their Criticism. An Example of the Structure of Processes in the History of Science.- Toulmin and the Rationality of Science.- Participation, ‘Authenticity’ and the Contemporary Vision of Man, Law and Society.- Rational Reconstructions.- A Paradox for the Birds.- Mathematics as a Critical Enterprise.- The Fertility of Theory and the Unit for Appraisal in Science.- The Ambivalence of Scientists.- Method or Madness?.- Novel Predictions as a Criterion of Merit.- Whither Physical Objects?.- Popperian Philosophy of Science as an Antidote Against Relativism.- Conditions of Progress and the Comparability of Theories.- Comments on Two Epistemological Theses of Thomas Kuhn.- Leibniz’s Program for the Development of Logic.- On Compton’s Research Program.- Inquiring Systems and Paradigms.- History, Praxis and the Third World’. Ambiguities in Lakatos’ Theory of Methodology.- Against Some Methods.- The Human Condition: Two Criticisms of Hobbes.- TheRelation Between Philosophy of Science and History of Science.- Cosmology and Logic — An Intractable Issue?.- Index of Names.

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