Understanding scientific progress

aim-oriented empiricism

By Nicholas Maxwell

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Publish Date

2017

Publisher

Paragon House Publishers

Language

eng

Pages

216

Description:

"Written for students of philosophy of science, the author describes why modern philosophy has been unable to explain scientific progress satisfactorily and develops the concept of aim-oriented empiricism to explain philosophical problems like induction and verisimilitude, which strict logicians cannot solve"--

subjects: Science, Philosophy, Theory reduction, Inquiry (Theory of knowledge), Wissenschaftlicher Fortschritt, Wissenschaftsphilosophie, Philosophie des sciences, Science, philosophy, Knowledge, theory of