Aim-oriented Empiricism and the 'Father' of the Scientific Revolution
Author : Katherine Rosemary Crawley
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Release : 1999
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Author : Katherine Rosemary Crawley
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File Size : 40,71 MB
Release : 1999
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Page : 290 pages
File Size : 21,67 MB
Release : 1999
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Author : Nicholas Maxwell
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 28,38 MB
Release : 2017-09-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1787350401
Here is an idea that just might save the world. It is that science, properly understood, provides us with the methodological key to the salvation of humanity. A version of this idea can be found in the works of Karl Popper. Famously, Popper argued that science cannot verify theories but can only refute them, and this is how science makes progress. Scientists are forced to think up something better, and it is this, according to Popper, that drives science forward.But Nicholas Maxwell finds a flaw in this line of argument. Physicists only ever accept theories that are unified – theories that depict the same laws applying to the range of phenomena to which the theory applies – even though many other empirically more successful disunified theories are always available. This means that science makes a questionable assumption about the universe, namely that all disunified theories are false. Without some such presupposition as this, the whole empirical method of science breaks down.By proposing a new conception of scientific methodology, which can be applied to all worthwhile human endeavours with problematic aims, Maxwell argues for a revolution in academic inquiry to help humanity make progress towards a better, more civilized and enlightened world.
Author : Steven Shapin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 22,33 MB
Release : 2018-11-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 022639848X
This scholarly and accessible study presents “a provocative new reading” of the late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century advances in scientific inquiry (Kirkus Reviews). In The Scientific Revolution, historian Steven Shapin challenges the very idea that any such a “revolution” ever took place. Rejecting the narrative that a new and unifying paradigm suddenly took hold, he demonstrates how the conduct of science emerged from a wide array of early modern philosophical agendas, political commitments, and religious beliefs. In this analysis, early modern science is shown not as a set of disembodied ideas, but as historically situated ways of knowing and doing. Shapin shows that every principle identified as the modernizing essence of science—whether it’s experimentalism, mathematical methodology, or a mechanical conception of nature—was in fact contested by sixteenth- and seventeenth-century practitioners with equal claims to modernity. Shapin argues that this contested legacy is nevertheless rightly understood as the origin of modern science, its problems as well as its acknowledged achievements. This updated edition includes a new bibliographic essay featuring the latest scholarship. “An excellent book.” —Anthony Gottlieb, New York Times Book Review
Author : Ernan McMullin
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Page : 39 pages
File Size : 38,35 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Empiricism
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Author : David Marshall Miller
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Page : 551 pages
File Size : 24,91 MB
Release : 2022-01-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1108420303
A collection of cutting-edge scholarship on the close interaction of philosophy with science at the birth of the modern age.
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Page : 428 pages
File Size : 29,89 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Dissertations, Academic
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Theses on any subject submitted by the academic libraries in the UK and Ireland.
Author : Francis Bacon
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 42,16 MB
Release : 2023-09-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3387025262
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Author : John Locke
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Page : 525 pages
File Size : 26,31 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Political science
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Author : Otto Neurath
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Page : 144 pages
File Size : 42,75 MB
Release : 1938
Category : Econometrics
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