Titlebook: Scientific Discovery, Logic, and Rationality; Thomas Nickles Book 1980 D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1980 history of sc

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The Rationality of Discovery,t this raises no problem, as the experts most closely related to the discovery in question can easily judge it. They do soon the strength of common theories of rationality. These are, first, that rationality equals algorism, and second, that it equals quasi-algorisms. Both these theories do untold d

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The Logic of Discovery: An Analysis of Three Approaches,is still controversial. Popper (1959), Hempel (1966), and Braithwaite (1955), for example, have categorically denied that anything like a logic of discovery is possible. On the other hand, the notion has been vigorously defended by C. S. Peirce and, more recently, by Hanson (1961), Achinstein (1970)

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The Role of Models in Theory Construction,tain kind. Part I presents an analysis of these problems and introduces terminology that facilitates an abstract treatment of the circumstances in which they arise. Part II describes a program of research suggested by these circumstances and incorporates its central features into an analysis of a sp

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Can Scientific Constraints be Violated Rationally?, . — presupposes an elaborate theoretical background, and the constraints or conditions of adequacy on its solution are predominantly conceptual rather than empirical. The solutions to many conceptual problems are theories. In working out the solution to such a problem, a scientist is reasoning to a

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Why Philosophers should not Despair of Understanding Scientific Discovery,r reexamination, a topic on which twentieth century orthodoxies will, I believe, soon seem . out of date.. It holds forth a triple challenge — first, understanding why so many philosophers since Herschel and Whewell have though that there could not be . philosophical understanding of the process of