书目名称 | Observation and Experiment in the Natural and Social Sciences |
编辑 | Maria Carla Galavotti |
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概述 | Includes supplementary material: |
丛书名称 | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science |
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描述 | According to a long tradition in philosophy of science, a clear cut distinction can be traced between a context of discovery and a context of justification. This tradition dates back to the birth of the discipline in connection with the Circles of Vienna and Berlin, in the twenties and thirties of last century. Convicted that only the context of justification is pertinent to philosophy of science, logical empiricists identified its goal with the “rational reconstruction” of scientific knowledge, taken as the clarification of the logical structure of science, through an analysis of its language and methods. Stressing justification as the proper field of application of philosophy of science, logical empiricists intended to leave discovery out of its remit. The context of discovery was then discarded from philosophy of science and left to sociology, psychology and history. The distinction between context of discovery and context of justification goes hand in hand with the tenet that the theoretical side of science can – and should – be kept separate from its observational and experimental components. Further, the final, abstract formulation of theories should be analysed apart from th |
出版日期 | Book 2003 |
关键词 | experimentation; heuristics; philosophy of science; probability; science |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-48123-5 |
isbn_softcover | 978-90-481-6278-9 |
isbn_ebook | 978-0-306-48123-9Series ISSN 0068-0346 Series E-ISSN 2214-7942 |
issn_series | 0068-0346 |
copyright | Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2003 |