Scientific Progress : A Study Concerning the Nature of the Relation Between Successive Scientific Theories /

Featuring the Gestalt Model and the Perspectivist conception of science, this book is unique in its non-relativistic development of the idea that successive scientific theories are logically incommensurable. This edition includes four new appendices in which the central ideas of the book are applied...

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Main Author: Dilworth, Craig
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1994.
Edition:Third Edition.
Series:Synthese library ; 153.
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Summary:Featuring the Gestalt Model and the Perspectivist conception of science, this book is unique in its non-relativistic development of the idea that successive scientific theories are logically incommensurable. This edition includes four new appendices in which the central ideas of the book are applied to subatomic physics, the distinction between laws and theories, the relation between absolute and relative conceptions of space, and the environmental issue of sustainable development.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (iv, 252 pages)
ISBN:9789401109147 (electronic bk.)
9401109141 (electronic bk.)