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Theories Of Scientific Method
Paperback Edition: 1
This major new series in the philosophy of science aims to provide a new generation of textbooks for the subject. The series will not only offer fresh treatments of core topics in the theory and methodology of scientific knowledge, but also introductions to newer areas
of the discipline. Furthermore, the series will cover topics in current science that raise significant foundational issues both for scientific theory and for philosophy more generally. Robert Nola and Howard Sankey provide an authoritative and comprehensive examination of the major theories of scientific method and the demarcation of science of the past fifty years. Beginning with the question of what methodology might mean, the authors explore the distinction between discovery and justification, and the ideas of values, rules, and principles. The authors consider induction and its alternatives including abduction and Inference to the Best Explanation (IBE), hypothetico-deductive method and the idea of testability. They discuss what a theory is, and consider axiomatic and semantic views, but also the idea of idealised models and the methodology of concretising ideal models. Probability and Bayesianism are also examined in detail. Popper's theory of scientific method and the demarcation of science, Lakatos's scientific research programmes, and Feyerabend's anarchism are all considered in turn. Naturalist methodologies, such as those proposed by Quine, Laudan and Rescher are also examined, as well as the extreme naturalism of the Strong programme in the sociology of knowledge, and empirical studies of methodology that arise out of cognitive science. Informed by the latest thinking, the book offers students an excellent introduction to the idea of scientific method and a wide-ranging discussion of how philosophers and scientists have grappled with the question over recent years.
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Publisher : Acumen Publishing Ltd
Publication date : 2006-11-01
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