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- catalog contributor b766522.
- catalog created "1987.".
- catalog date "1987".
- catalog date "1987.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1987.".
- catalog description "1. Philosophy of science and history of science : the principal alternatives -- 2. Are philosophy of science and history of science mutually exclusive disciplines?: Kuhn's Gestalt analogy. Philosophy of science, history of science, and Bohr's principle of complimentarity. Kuhn's "puzzle-solving" model of historical explanation -- 3. More than a marriage of convenience: Confirmation and historical enquiry: Hempel's "Satisfaction criterion" of qualitative confirmation ; "Historical" views of confirmation. Theory appraisal and historical enquiry: Herschel on "undesigned scope" ; Reduction and history of science ; Theory replacement and the Correspondence principle -- 4. Prescriptive philosophy of science : a historical survey: Aristotle. Newton. Nineteenth-century methodologists : Herschel, Whewill, and Mill. Campbell. Operationalism. The programme of the Vienna Circle. Margenau's "constructionist" philosophy of science. Popper -- ".
- catalog description "5. Prescriptive philosophy of science and invioble principles: Changing evaluative standards and the continuity of a philosophy of science. Shapere's programme for a non-presuppositionist philosophy of science -- 6. The justifactory hierarchy: Evaluative standards: Criteria of acceptability ; The ideal of deductive explanation. Justification of evaluative standards: Whewell and the historicist standpoint ; Mill and the logicist standpoint ; Lakatos on the evaluation of historiographical research programmes ; Prospects for a moderate historicism. Evaluation procedures for the justification of evaluative standards: Laudan's evaluation procedure ; Other level 3 evaluation procedures. Justification of evaluation procedures for the selection of a philosophy of science -- ".
- catalog description "7. Philosophy of science without prescriptive intent: The descriptive alternative. Anticipations of descriptive philosophy of science: Hanson on the uses of scientific laws ; Toulmin on ideals of natural order ; Feyerabend on methodological anarchism ; Shapere on the development of scientific domains ; Laudan's reticulational model of justification -- 8. Holton on thematic analysis -- 9. History of science and descriptive philosophy of science.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and indexes.".
- catalog extent "viii, 153 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Philosophy of science and historical enquiry.".
- catalog identifier "0198249462 :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Philosophy of science and historical enquiry.".
- catalog issued "1987".
- catalog issued "1987.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford [Oxfordshire] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog relation "Philosophy of science and historical enquiry.".
- catalog subject "501 19".
- catalog subject "Q175 .L664 1987".
- catalog subject "Science History.".
- catalog subject "Science Philosophy.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Philosophy of science and history of science : the principal alternatives -- 2. Are philosophy of science and history of science mutually exclusive disciplines?: Kuhn's Gestalt analogy. Philosophy of science, history of science, and Bohr's principle of complimentarity. Kuhn's "puzzle-solving" model of historical explanation -- 3. More than a marriage of convenience: Confirmation and historical enquiry: Hempel's "Satisfaction criterion" of qualitative confirmation ; "Historical" views of confirmation. Theory appraisal and historical enquiry: Herschel on "undesigned scope" ; Reduction and history of science ; Theory replacement and the Correspondence principle -- 4. Prescriptive philosophy of science : a historical survey: Aristotle. Newton. Nineteenth-century methodologists : Herschel, Whewill, and Mill. Campbell. Operationalism. The programme of the Vienna Circle. Margenau's "constructionist" philosophy of science. Popper -- ".
- catalog tableOfContents "5. Prescriptive philosophy of science and invioble principles: Changing evaluative standards and the continuity of a philosophy of science. Shapere's programme for a non-presuppositionist philosophy of science -- 6. The justifactory hierarchy: Evaluative standards: Criteria of acceptability ; The ideal of deductive explanation. Justification of evaluative standards: Whewell and the historicist standpoint ; Mill and the logicist standpoint ; Lakatos on the evaluation of historiographical research programmes ; Prospects for a moderate historicism. Evaluation procedures for the justification of evaluative standards: Laudan's evaluation procedure ; Other level 3 evaluation procedures. Justification of evaluation procedures for the selection of a philosophy of science -- ".
- catalog tableOfContents "7. Philosophy of science without prescriptive intent: The descriptive alternative. Anticipations of descriptive philosophy of science: Hanson on the uses of scientific laws ; Toulmin on ideals of natural order ; Feyerabend on methodological anarchism ; Shapere on the development of scientific domains ; Laudan's reticulational model of justification -- 8. Holton on thematic analysis -- 9. History of science and descriptive philosophy of science.".
- catalog title "Philosophy of science and historical enquiry / John Losee.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".