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  • 1980-1984  (3)
  • 1980  (3)
  • Dordrecht : Springer  (3)
  • Social sciences Philosophy
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    Scientific Discovery, Logic, and Rationality (1980)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9789400989863
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (400p) , digital
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 56
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 56
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Social sciences Philosophy ; History ; Science—Philosophy. ; Philosophy and social sciences.
    Abstract: Introductory Essay: Scientific Discovery and the Future of Philosophy of Science -- The Character of Scientific Change -- Discussion of Shapere -- Discovery and Rule-Books -- Discussion of Achinstein -- Analysis as a Method of Discovery During the Scientific Revolution -- The Method of Analysis in Mathematics -- Why Was the Logic of Discovery Abandoned? -- The Rationality of Discovery -- The Logic of Discovery: An Analysis of Three Approaches -- The Logic of Invention -- Scientific Discoveries as Growth of Understanding: The Case of Newton’s Gravitation -- The Vanishing Context of Discovery: Newton’s Discovery of Gravity -- The Role of Models in Theory Construction -- Can Scientific Constraints Be Violated Rationally? -- Why Philosophers Should Not Despair Of Understanding Scientific Discovery -- Productive Reasoning and the Structure of Scientific Research -- Structural Explanations in Social Science -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
    Abstract: It is fast becoming a cliche that scientific discovery is being rediscovered. For two philosophical generations (that of the Founders and that of the Followers of the logical positivist and logical empiricist movements), discovery had been consigned to the domain of the intractable, the ineffable, the inscrutable. The philosophy of science was focused on the so-called context of justification as its proper domain. More recently, as the exclusivity of the logical reconstruc­ tion program in philosophy of science came under question, and as the critique of justification developed within the framework of logical and epistemological analysis, the old question of scientific discovery, which had been put on the back burner, began to emerge once again. Emphasis on the relation of the history of science to the philosophy of science, and attention to the question of theory change and theory replacement, also served to legitimate a new concern with the origins of scientific change to be found within discovery and invention. How welcome then to see what a wide range of issues and what a broad representation of philosophers and historians of science have been brought together in the present two volumes of the Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science! For what these volumes achieve, in effect, is the continuation of a tradition which had once been strong in the philosophy of science - namely, that tradition which addressed the question of scientific discovery as a central question in the understanding of science.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-8986-3
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  • 2
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    Scientific Discovery: Case Studies (1980)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9789400990159
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (404p) , digital
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 60
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 60
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Social sciences Philosophy ; History ; Science—Philosophy. ; Philosophy and social sciences.
    Abstract: Understanding Scientific Discovery -- Scientific Judgment: Creativity and Discovery in Scientific Thought -- Discussion of Wartofsky’s Paper -- The Rational Explanation of Historical Discoveries -- Theoretical and Methodological Innovation in the Copernican Era and Beyond: Social Factors -- The Legitimation of Scientific Belief: Theory Justification by Copernicus -- Wilhelm IV of Hesse-Kassel: Informal Commun-ication and the Aristocratic Context of Discovery -- The Clock Metaphor in the History of Psychology -- Biological Sciences From Darwin To Computer Diagnosis -- The Evolving Systems Approach to Creative Scientific Work: Charles Darwin’s Early Thought -- Ought Philosophers Consider Scientific Discovery? A Darwinian Case-Study -- Theory Construction in Genetics -- Discovery in the Biomedical Sciences: Logic or Irrational Intuition? -- Comment on Schaffner -- Reply -- Reductionistic Research Strategies and their Biases in the Units of Selection Controversy -- Physics and Chemistry in the Twentieth Century -- The Discovery of a New Quantum Theory -- The Personal Character of the Discovery of Mechanisms in Cloud Physics -- The Structure of Discovery: Evolution of Structural Accounts of Chemical Bonding -- The Revolution in Geology: Continental Drift -- The Method of Multiple Working Hypotheses and the Development of Plate Tectonic Theory -- Hess’s Development of his Seafloor Spreading Hypothesis -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
    Abstract: The history of science is articulated by moments of discovery. Yet, these 'moments' are not simple or isolated events in science. Just as a scientific discovery illuminates our understanding of nature or of society, and reveals new connections among phenomena, so too does the history of scientific activity and the analysis of scientific reasoning illuminate the processes which give rise to moments of discovery and the complex network of consequences which follow upon such moments. Understanding discovery has not been, until recently, a major concern of modem philosophy of science. Whether the act of discoyery was regarded as mysterious and inexplicable, or obvious and in no need of explanation, modem philosophy of science in effect bracketed the question. It concentrated instead on the logic of scientific explanation or on the issues of validation or justification of scientific theories or laws. The recent revival of interest in the context of discovery, indeed in the acts of discovery, on the part of philosophers and historians of science, represents no one particular method'ological or philosophical orientation. It proceeds as much from an empiricist and analytical approach as from a sociological or historical one; from considerations of the logic of science as much as from the alogical or extralogical contexts of scientific tho'¢tt and practice. But, in general, this new interest focuses sharply on the actual historical and contem­ porary cases of scientific discovery, and on an examination of the act or moment of discovery in situ.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-9015-9
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  • 3
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    Concept Formation in the Humanities and the Social Sciences (1980)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9789400990197
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (252p) , digital
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science 144
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Social sciences Philosophy ; Philosophy and social sciences.
    Abstract: One: Methods of Concept Formation -- I. Metrical Concepts and Measurement in the Humanities -- II. Concepts with Family Meanings in the Humanities -- III. Persuasive Function of Language -- Two: Applications -- A. Aesthetics and Art Theory -- IV. Informational Aesthetics -- V. The Concept of Kitsch -- VI. The Concept of Happening -- VII. Interpretation of Art Works -- VIII. Beauty and its Socio-Psychological Determinants -- B. Social Sciences -- IX. The Concept of Indicator in the Social Sciences -- X. Semiotic Theory of Culture -- XI. Theory of Questions and its Applications in the Social Sciences -- Author Index.
    Abstract: Uniqueness of style versus plurality of styles: in terms of these aesthetic categories one of the most important differences between the recent past and the present can be described. This difference manifests itself in all spheres of life - in fashion, in everyday life, in the arts, in science. What is of interest for my purposes in this book are its manifestations in the processes of con­ cept formation as they occur in the humanities, broadly conceived. Here the following methodological approaches seem to dominate the scene. 1. A tendency to apply semiotic concepts in various fields of research. 2. Attempts to introduce metrical concepts and measurement, even into disciplines tra­ ditionally considered as unamenable to mathematical treatment, like aesthetics and theory of art. 3. Efforts to fmd ways of formulating empirically testable, operational criteria for the application of concepts, especially concepts which refer to objects directly not observable, like dispositions, attitudes, character or personality traits. Care is also taken to take advantage of the conceptual apparatus of methodology to express problems in the humanities with the highest possible degree of clarity and precision. 4. Analysis of the p~rsuasive function oflanguage and its possible uses in science and in everyday life. The above tendencies are present in this book. It is divided into two parts: I. Methods of Concept Formation, and II. Applications. In the first part some general methods of concept formation are presented and their merits discussed.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-9019-7
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