Is Scientific Knowledge Rational?
Author : Halil Rahman Açar
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,86 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Bilim Felsefesi
ISBN :
Author : Halil Rahman Açar
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,86 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Bilim Felsefesi
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Author : W.H. Newton-Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 33,90 MB
Release : 2002-02-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1134930968
A clear, original and systematic introduction to philosophy of science which examines the theories of Popper, Lakatos, Kuhn and Feyerabend before proposing a new, temperate rationalist perspective.
Author : Karl Raimund Popper
Publisher :
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 31,19 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Knowledge, Theory of
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Author : Stefano Gattei
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 39,10 MB
Release : 2008-10-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1134182953
Rectifying misrepresentations of Popperian thought with a historical approach to Popper’s philosophy, Gattei reconstructs the logic of Popper’s development to show how one problem and its tentative solution led to a new problem.
Author : Ingemar Nordin
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 20,52 MB
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1498541100
In Using Knowledge: On the Rationality of Science, Technology, and Medicine Ingemar Nordin analyses the philosophical problems and nature of science, technology, and medicine. The main focus of the book is on the structure and dynamics of technological change. What implications do the goals of technology have for its rationality? How can the pragmatic problem of induction be solved within a fallibilistic and skeptical context? Nordin shows that the social context is of vital importance for the goal of technology (usefulness) and its rational development, with important consequences for how to design a techno policy in society. A rational technological development needs technological pluralism since knowledge of what is useful is scattered among millions of users.
Author : G. Radnitzky
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 45,9 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 940099866X
This collection of essays has evolved through the co-operative efforts, which began in the fall of 1974, of the participants in a workshop sponsored by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation. The idea of holding one or more small colloquia devoted to the topics of rational choice in science and scientific progress originated in a conversation in the summer of 1973 between one of the editors (GR) and the late Imre Lakatos. Unfortunately Lakatos himself was never able to see this project through, but his thought-provoking methodology of scientific research programmes was ably expounded and defended by his successors. Indeed, this volume continues and deepens the debate inaugurated in Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge (edited by Imre Lakatos and Alan Musgrave), a book which grew out of a conference held in 1965. That debate has continued during the years that have passed since that conference. The group of discussions about the place of rationality in science which have been held between those who emphasize the history of science (with Feyerabend and Kuhn as the most prominent exponents) and the critical rationalists (Popper and his followers), with Imre Lakatos defending a middle ground, these discussions were seen by almost all commentators as the most important event in the philosophy of science in the last decade. This problem area constituted the central theme of our Thyssen workshop. The workshop operated in the following manner.
Author : Roger Trigg
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,26 MB
Release : 1993-12-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780631190370
In this important new work, Professor Trigg deals with the question of the rational foundations of science. In so doing, he explains and evaluates the views of Rorty, Wittgensteing, Quine, Putnam, and Hawking, amongst others. The limits of science and rationality are explored and the power of human reason is in the end upheld.
Author : Karl Popper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 18,44 MB
Release : 2014-04-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 113597473X
In a career spanning sixty years, Sir Karl Popper has made some of the most important contributions to the twentieth century discussion of science and rationality. The Myth of the Framework is a new collection of some of Popper's most important material on this subject. Sir Karl discusses such issues as the aims of science, the role that it plays in our civilization, the moral responsibility of the scientist, the structure of history, and the perennial choice between reason and revolution. In doing so, he attacks intellectual fashions (like positivism) that exagerrate what science and rationality have done, as well as intellectual fashions (like relativism) that denigrate what science and rationality can do. Scientific knowledge, according to Popper, is one of the most rational and creative of human achievements, but it is also inherently fallible and subject to revision. In place of intellectual fashions, Popper offers his own critical rationalism - a view that he regards both as a theory of knowlege and as an attitude towards human life, human morals and democracy. Published in cooperation with the Central European University.
Author : Massimo Pigliucci
Publisher :
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 36,85 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Philosophy
ISBN :
Author : Devin Henry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 38,96 MB
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107010365
Explores the extent to which Aristotle's ethical treatises employ the concepts, methods, and practices developed in his 'scientific' works.