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Beyond Kuhn : scientific explanation, theory structure, incommensurability and physical necessity /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hung, Edwin H.-C
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2006]
Subjects:
Science > Philosophy.
Conceptualism.
Representation (Philosophy)
Kuhn, Thomas S. > Structure of scientific revolutions.
Science > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the road to Kuhn and beyond
  • A new logic of explanation
  • Structure of conceptual theories I: category systems
  • Structure of conceptual theories II: representational spaces
  • Structure of conceptual theories III: languages
  • Incommensurability
  • Scientific growth
  • Physical necessity : a cross-theoretic notion
  • Projective explanation : deduction lost, deduction regained.