New Philosophical Perspectives on Scientific Progress
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New Philosophical Perspectives on Scientific Progress

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  2. English
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New Philosophical Perspectives on Scientific Progress

About this book

This collection of original essays offers a comprehensive examination of scientific progress, which has been a central topic in recent debates in philosophy of science.

Traditionally, debates over scientific progress have focused on different methodological approaches, notably the epistemic and semantic approaches. The chapters in Part I of the book examine these two traditional approaches, as well as the newly revived functional and newly developed noetic approaches. Part II features in-depth case studies of scientific progress from the history of science. The chapters cover individual sciences including physics, chemistry, evolutionary biology, seismology, psychology, sociology, economics, and medicine. Finally, Part III of the book explores important issues from contemporary philosophy of science. These chapters address the implications of scientific progress for the scientific realism/anti-realism debate, incommensurability, values in science, idealisation, scientific speculation, interdisciplinarity, and scientific perspectivalism.

New Philosophical Perspectives on Scientific Progress will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working on the history and philosophy of science.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2022
Print ISBN
9780367760557
eBook ISBN
9781000780901
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Philosophy History & Theory

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. List of Contributors
  9. Introduction: Philosophical Analyses of Scientific Progress
  10. Part I Main Philosophical Approaches
  11. Part II Historical Case Studies
  12. Part III Related Issues
  13. Index

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