Scientific Progress : A Study Concerning the Nature of the Relation Between Successive Scientific Theories
Publication year: 2007
ISBN: 978-1-4020-6354-1
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In this book, Craig Dilworth answers all 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 does both.
Subject: Humanities, Social Science and Law, Galileo Galilei, Gestalt Model, Incommensurability, Isaac Newton, Karl R. Popper, Perspectivist conception, Scientific progress, philosophy of science, science
