| 书目名称 | The Metaphysics of Science | | 副标题 | An Account of Modern | | 编辑 | Craig Dilworth | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Takes a Metaphysical approach to the subject.Coherent view of science that trnascents the boundries of professional philosophy of science.Provides a realistic conception of the enterprise than can be | | 丛书名称 | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | The roots of this work lie in my earlier book, Scientific Progress, which first appeared in 1981. One of its topics, the distinction - tween scientific laws and theories, is there treated with reference to the same distinction as drawn by N. R. Campbell in his Physics: The Elements. Shortly after completing Scientific Progress, I read Rom Harré’s The Principles of Scientific Thinking, in which the concept of theory is even more clearly delineated than in Campbell, being directly connected to the notion of a model – as it was in my book. In subsequent considerations regarding science, Harré’s work thus - came my main source of inspiration with regard to theories, while Campbell’s remained my main source with respect to empirical laws. Around the same time I also read William Whewell’s Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences. In this work, Whewell depicts principles as playing a central role in the formation of science, and conceives of them in much the same way as Kant conceives of fundamental synthetic a priori judgements. The idea that science should have principles as a basic element immediately made sense to me, and from that time I have thought of science in terms of laws, theorie | | 出版日期 | Book 2007Latest edition | | 关键词 | Laws; Principles; Theories; evolution; experience; knowledge; metaphysics; philosophy of science; probabilit | | 版次 | 2 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-3838-9 | | isbn_softcover | 978-1-4020-6327-5 | | isbn_ebook | 978-1-4020-3838-9Series ISSN 0068-0346 Series E-ISSN 2214-7942 | | issn_series | 0068-0346 | | copyright | Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007 |
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