Reason and the Search for Knowledge Investigations in the Philosophy of Science

Reason and the Search for Knowledge Investigations in the Philosophy of Science / by D. Shapere.

An impressive characteristic of Dudley Shapere's studies in the philosophy of the sciences has been his dogged reasonableness. He sorts things out, with logical care and mastery of the materials, and with an epistemological curiosity for the historical happenings which is both critical and resp...

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Main Author: Shapere, D. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1984.
Edition:1st ed. 1984.
Series:Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 78
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Subjects:
Philosophy and science.
History.
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Table of Contents:
  • I. Critical Papers
  • 1: Philosophy and the Analysis of Language
  • 2: Mathematical Ideals and Metaphysical Concepts
  • 3: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
  • 4: The Paradigm Concept
  • 5: Meaning and Scientific Change
  • 6: Notes Toward a Post-Positivistic Interpretation of Science, Part I
  • II. Analyses of Issues
  • 7: Space, Time, and Language
  • 8: Interpretations of Science in America
  • 9: Unity and Method in Contemporary Science
  • 10: What Can the Theory of Knowledge Learn from the History of Knowledge?
  • III. Toward a Systematic Philosophy of Science
  • 11: The Character of Scientific Change
  • 12: The Scope and Limits of Scientific Change
  • 13: Scientific Theories and Their Domains
  • 14: Remarks on the Concepts of Domain and Field
  • 15: Alteration of Goals and Language in the Development of Science
  • 16: The Concept of Observation in Science and Philosophy (Summary version)
  • 17: Notes Toward a Post-Positivistic Interpretation of Science, Part II
  • 18: Reason, Reference, and the Quest for Knowledge
  • 19: Modern Science and the Philosophical Tradition
  • List Of Publications
  • Index Of Names
  • Index Of Topics.

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