After Popper, Kuhn and Feyerabend

by Nola, Robert; Sankey, Howard

• ISBN13: 9781402002465
• ISBN10: 1402002467
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Print on Demand

Summary

Some think that issues to do with scientific method are last century's stale debate; Popper was an advocate of methodology, but Kuhn, Feyerabend, and others are alleged to have brought the debate about its status to an end. The papers in this volume show that issues in methodology are still very much alive. Some of the papers reinvestigate issues in the debate over methodology, while others set out new ways in which the debate has developed in the last decade. The book will be of interest to philosophers and scientists alike in the reassessment it provides of earlier debates about method and current directions of research.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements. Introduction; R. Nola, H. Sankey. A Selective Survey of Theories of Scientific Method; R. Nola, H. Sankey. How We Know About Electrons; J. Norton. How We Know About Electrons. The Rationality of the Chemical Revolution; A. Pyle. Kuhn, Bayes and 'Theory Choice': How Revolutionary is Kuhn's Account of Theoretical Change? J. Worrall. With Friends Like These..., or What is Inductivism and Why is it Off the Agenda? J. Fox. Is Epistemology Adequate to the Task of Rational Theory Evaluation? L. Laudan. Naturalism Logicized; K. Kelly. Methodological Pluralism, Normative Naturalism and the Realist Aim of Science; H. Sankey. The Hard Problems in the Philosophy of Science. Notes on Contributors. Index.