Revisiting Discovery and Justification Historical and philosophical perspectives on the context distinction

Revisiting Discovery and Justification Historical and philosophical perspectives on the context distinction / edited by Jutta Schickore, Friedrich Steinle.

The distinction between the contexts of discovery and justification has had a turbulent career in philosophy of science. At times celebrated as the hallmark of philosophical approaches to science, at times condemned as ambiguous, distorting, and misleading, the distinction dominated philosophical de...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Schickore, Jutta (Editor), Steinle, Friedrich (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2006.
Edition:1st ed. 2006.
Series:Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, 14
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Philosophy and science.
History.
Epistemology.
Philosophy.
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Table of Contents:
  • INTRODUCTION: REVISITING THE CONTEXT DISTINCTION
  • The contexts of the Distinction
  • LOST WANDERERS IN THE FOREST OF KNOWLEDGE: SOME THOUGHTS ON THE DISCOVERY-JUSTIFICATION DISTINCTION
  • INDUCTIVE JUSTIFICATION AND DISCOVERY. ON HANS REICHENBACH’S FOUNDATION OF THE AUTONOMY OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
  • FREEDOM IN A SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY: READING THE CONTEXT OF REICHENBACH’S CONTEXTS
  • Forerunners?
  • A FORERUNNER?—PERHAPS, BUT NOT TO THE CONTEXT DISTINCTION. WILLIAM WHEWELL’S GERMANO-CANTABRIGIAN HISTORY OF THE FUNDAMENTAL IDEAS
  • AUTONOMY VERSUS DEVELOPMENT: DUHEM ON PROGRESS IN SCIENCE
  • PSYCHOLOGISM AND THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN DISCOVERY AND JUSTIFICATION
  • Revisions and Applications
  • HEURISTIC APPRAISAL: CONTEXT OF DISCOVERY OR JUSTIFICATION?
  • CONCEPT FORMATION AND THE LIMITS OF JUSTIFICATION: “DISCOVERING” THE TWO ELECTRICITIES
  • CONTEXTS OF JUSTIFYING AND DISCOVERING THE NATURE OF ECOSYSTEMS: FROM CONCEPTS TO OBJECTS AND VICE VERSA
  • ON THE INEXTRICABILITY OF THE CONTEXT OF DISCOVERY AND THE CONTEXT OF JUSTIFICATION
  • CONTEXT OF DISCOVERY VERSUS CONTEXT OF JUSTIFICATION AND THOMAS KUHN
  • HOW CAN WE USE THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN DISCOVERY AND JUSTIFICATION? ON THE WEAKNESSES OF THE STRONG PROGRAMME IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF SCIENCE.

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