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This collection of essays has evolved through the co-operative efforts, which began in the fall of 1974, of the participants in a workshop sponsored by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation. The idea of holding one or more small colloquia devoted to the topics of rational choice in science and scientific progress originated in a conversation in the summer of 1973 between one of the editors (GR) and the late Imre Lakatos. Unfortunately Lakatos himself was never able to see this project through, but his thought-provoking methodology of scientific research programmes was ably expounded and defended by his successors. Indeed, this volume continues and deepens the debate inaugurated in Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge (edited by Imre Lakatos and Alan Musgrave), a book which grew out of a conference held in 1965. That debate has continued during the years that have passed since that conference. The group of discussions about the place of rationality in science which have been held between those who emphasize the history of science (with Feyerabend and Kuhn as the most prominent exponents) and the critical rationalists (Popper and his followers), with Imre Lakatos defending a middle ground, these discussions were seen by almost all commentators as the most important event in the philosophy of science in the last decade. This problem area constituted the central theme of our Thyssen workshop. The workshop operated in the following manner.

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Author:   G. Radnitzky ,  G. Andersson ,  Robert S. Cohen ,  Marx W. Wartofsky
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Kluwer Academic Publishers
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1978
Volume:   58
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.670kg
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9789027709226

ISBN 10:   902770922
Pages:   426
Publication Date:   30 November 1978
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Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

Objective Criteria of Scientific Progress? Inductivism, Falsificationism, and Relativism.- I: The LSE Position.- The Popperian Approach to Scientific Knowledge.- The Ways in Which the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes Improves on Popper’s Methodology.- ‘Crucial’ Experiments: A Case Study.- The Objective Promise of a Research Programme.- II: Reflections on the LSE Position.- Popper vs Inductivism.- In Defence of Aristotle: Comments on the Condition of Content Increase.- Evidential Support, Falsification, Heuristics, and Anarchism.- Science and the Search for Truth.- Philosophy of Science and Its Rational Reconstructions.- Towards a New Theory of Scientific Inquiry.- Some Critical Comments on Current Popperianism on the Basis of a Theory of System Sets.- The Problem of Verisimilitude.- Objectivism vs Sociologism.- III: The LSE Reply.- Research Programmes, Empirical Support, and the Duhem Problem: Replies to Criticism.- Corroboration and the Problem of Content-Comparison.- Unified Bibliography for Parts I And III.- IV: Two Brief Rejoinders.- The Gong Show — Popperian Style.- Reply to Watkins.- Biographical Notes.- Author Index.

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