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Springer Scientific Progress A Study Concerning The Nature Of The Relation Between Successive Scientific Theories 2008 Edition by Craig Dilworth
Kuhn and Feyerabend formulated the problem Dilworth provides the solution. In the fourth edition of this highly original book Craig Dilworth answers the questions raised by the incommensurability thesis. Logical empiricism cannot account for theory conflict. Popperianism cannot account for how one theory is a progression beyond another. Dilworth's Perspectivist conception of science covers both bases with a concept of scientific progress based on both rationalism and empiricism. Table of contents : The Deductive Model.- The Basis Of The Logical Empiricist Conception Of Science.- The Basis Of The Popperian Conception Of Science.- The Logical Empiricist Conception Of Scientific Progress.- The Popperian Conception Of Scientific Progress.- Popper Lakatos And The Transcendence Of The Deductive Model.- Kuhn Feyerabend And In Commensurability.- The Gestalt Model.- The Perspectivist Conception Of Science.- Development Of The Perspectivist Conception In The Context Of The Kinetic Theory Of Gases.- The Set-Theoretic Conception Of Science.- Application Of The Perspectivist Conception To The Views Of Newton Kepler And Galileo.