Scientific Progress: A Study Concerning the Nature of the Relation Between Successive Scientific Theories

by Craig Dilworth

Book Overview

Kuhn and Feyerabend formulated the problem, Dilworth provides the solution. In the fourth edition of this highly original book, Craig Dilworth answers the questions raised by the incommensurability thesis. Logical empiricism cannot account for theory conflict. Popperianism cannot account for how one theory is a progression beyond another. Dilworth's Perspectivist conception of science covers both bases with a concept of scientific progress based...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402091087
• ISBN13: 9781402091087
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"