Realism and the Progress of Science
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
ISBN-10
0521239370
ISBN-13
9780521239370
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 3rd, 1981
Print length
143 Pages
Weight
315 grams
Product Classification:
Analytical philosophy & Logical Positivism
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This book examines the philosophical foundations of the realist view of the progress of science as cumulative.
This book examines the philosophical foundations of the realist view of the progress of science as cumulative. It is a view that has recently been faced with a number of powerful attacks in which successive scientific theories are seen, not as extending their scope and honing their explanations, but as incommensurable. There is, it is held, in principle no way of establishing that they are about the same things. From the voluminous literature on the topic, Dr Smith has selected relevantly and incisively and his exposition of the contending arguments is vigourous and clear, without undue technicality. As an explication and defence of realism it will interest all those concerned with this basic question in the philosophy of science and the philosophy of language.
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