Book ID: CBB000102418

On Comparing and Evaluating Scientific Theories (2000)

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Jonkisz, Adam (Editor)
Koj, Leon (Editor)


Rodopi


Publication Date: 2000
Physical Details: 237 pp., bibl.
Language: English

Description Contents: L. Koj: Preface. L. Koj: Methodology and Values. L. Koj: Science as System. A. Grobler: Explanation and Epistemic Virtue. P. Giza: “Intelligent” Computer System and Theory Comparison. H. Ogryzko-Wiewiórowski: Methods of Social Choice of Scientific Theories. K. Jodkowski: Is the Causal Theory of Reference a Remedy for Ontological Incommensurability? W. Balzer: On Approximative Reduction. C. Ulises Moulines: Is There Genuinely Scientific Progress? A. Jonkisz: On Relative Progress in Science.


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Authors & Contributors
McCain, Kevin
Rice, Collin C.
Barseghyan, Hakob
Parsons, Keith M.
Uebel, Thomas E.
Toader, Iulian D.
Journals
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
Spontaneous Generations
Monist: An International Quarterly Journal of General Philosophical Inquiry
Journal for General Philosophy of Science
HOPOS
Publishers
Kluwer Academic
Cambridge University Press
University of Toronto Press
Springer
Prometheus Books
Polity Press
Concepts
Explanation; hypotheses; theories
Methodology of science; scientific method
Philosophy of science
Epistemology
Experiments and experimentation
Subjectivity
People
Kuhn, Thomas S.
Carnap, Rudolf
Weyl, Hermann
Stein, Howard
Reichenbach, Hans
Prusiner, Stanley B.
Time Periods
20th century, late
20th century
21st century
20th century, early
17th century
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