Problems of empiricism

Over the past thirty years Paul Feyerabend has developed an extremely distinctive and influentical approach to problems in the philosophy of science. The most important and seminal of his published essays are collected here in two volumes, with new introductions to provide an overview and historical...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Feyerabend, P., 1924-1994, autor (autor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 1981.
Colección:CUP ebooks.
Philosophical papers ; v. 2.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Historical background: some observations on the decay of the philosophy of science
  • Classical empiricism
  • The structure of science
  • Two models of epistemic change: Mill and Hegel
  • Philosophy of science versus scientific practice: observations on Mach, his followers, and his opponents
  • Mach, Einstein, and the Popperians
  • Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations
  • Consolations for the specialist
  • Popper's Objective Knowledge
  • The methodology of scientific research programmes
  • More clothes from the emperor's bargain basement: a review of Laudan's Progress and its Problems.