Methodology Epistemology And Philosophy Of Science

Author : M. Bunge
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 414 pages
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Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400970274

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Epistemology & Methodology I: by M. Bunge Pdf

In this Introduction we shall state the business of both descriptive and normative epistemology, and shall locate them in the map oflearning. This must be done because epistemology has been pronounced dead, and methodology nonexisting; and because, when acknowledged at all, they are often misplaced. 1. DESCRIPTIVE EPISTEMOLOGY The following problems are typical of classical epistemology: (i) What can we know? (ii) How do we know? (iii) What, if anything, does the subject contribute to his knowledge? (iv) What is truth? (v) How can we recognize truth? (vi) What is probable knowledge as opposed to certain knowledge? (vii) Is there a priori knowledge, and if so of what? (viii) How are knowledge and action related? (ix) How are knowledge and language related? (x) What is the status of concepts and propositions? In some guise or other all of these problems are still with us. To be sure, if construed as a demand for an inventory of knowledge the first problem is not a philosophical one any more than the question 'What is there?'. But it is a genuine philosophical problem if construed thus: 'What kinds of object are knowable-and which ones are not?' However, it is doubtful that philosophy can offer a correct answer to this problem without the help of science and technology. For example, only these disciplines can tell us whether man can know not only phenomena (appearances) but also noumena (things in themselves or self-existing objects).

Author : Carl G. Hempel,H. Putnam,Wilhelm K. Essler
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 428 pages
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Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401576765

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Methodology, Epistemology, and Philosophy of Science by Carl G. Hempel,H. Putnam,Wilhelm K. Essler Pdf

Author : M. Bunge
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 275 pages
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Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789400952812

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Epistemology & Methodology III: Philosophy of Science and Technology Part I: Formal and Physical Sciences by M. Bunge Pdf

The aims of this Introduction are to characterize the philosophy of science and technology, henceforth PS & T, to locate it on the map ofiearning, and to propose criteria for evaluating work in this field. 1. THE CHASM BETWEEN S & T AND THE HUMANITIES It has become commonplace to note that contemporary culture is split into two unrelated fields: science and the rest, to deplore this split - and to do is some truth in the two cultures thesis, and even nothing about it. There greater truth in the statement that there are literally thousands of fields of knowledge, each of them cultivated by specialists who are in most cases indifferent to what happens in the other fields. But it is equally true that all fields of knowledge are united, though in some cases by weak links, forming the system of human knowledge. Because of these links, what advances, remains stagnant, or declines, is the entire system of S & T. Throughout this book we shall distinguish the main fields of scientific and technological knowledge while at the same time noting the links that unite them.

Author : Robert S. Cohen,Marx W. Wartofsky
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 272 pages
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Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401714587

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Epistemology, Methodology, and the Social Sciences by Robert S. Cohen,Marx W. Wartofsky Pdf

The last decades have seen major reformations in the philosophy and history of science. What has been called 'post-positivist' philosophy of science has introduced radically new concerns with historical, social, and valuative components of scientific thought in the natural sciences, and has raised up the demons of relativism, subjectivism and sociologism to haunt the once calm precincts of objectivity and realism. Though these disturbances intruded upon what had seemed to be the logically well-ordered domain of the philoso phy of the natural sciences, they were no news to the social sciences. There, the messy business of human action, volition, decision, the considerations of practical purposes and social values, the role of ideology and the problem of rationality, had long conspired to defeat logical-reconstructionist programs. The attempt to tarne the social sciences to the harness of a strict hypothetico deductive model of explanation failed. Within the social sciences, phenome nological, Marxist, hermeneuticist, action-theoretical approaches vied in attempting to capture the distinctiveness of human phenomena. In fact, the philosophy of the natural sciences, even in its 'hard' forms, has itself become infected with the increasing reflection upon the role of such social-scientific categories, in the attempt to understand the nature of the scientific enterprise.

Author : G.L. Pandit
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 451 pages
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Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401131742

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Methodological Variance by G.L. Pandit Pdf

For a philosopher with an abiding interest in the nature of objective knowledge systems in science, what could be more important than trying to think in terms of those very subjects of such knowledge to which men like Galileo, Newton, Max Planck, Einstein and others devoted their entire lifetimes? In certain respects, these systems and their structures may not be beyond the grasp of a linguistic conception of science, and scientific change, which men of science and philosophy have advocated in various forms in recent times. But certainly it is wrong-headed to think that one's conception of science can be based on an identification of its theories with languages in which they may be, my own alternatively, framed. There may be more than one place in book (1983: 87) where they may seem to get confused with each other, quite against my original intentiens. The distinction between the objec tive knowledge systems in science and the dynamic frameworks of the languages of the special individual sciences, in which their growth can be embedded in significant ways, assumes here, therefore, much impor tance. It must be recognized that the problems concerning scientific change, which these systems undergo, are not just problems concerning language change.

Author : Wilhelm Karl Essler,Carl Gustav Hempel,Hilary Putnam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
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Release : 1983
Category : Science
ISBN : OCLC:10211446

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Methodology, Epistemology, and Philosophy of Science by Wilhelm Karl Essler,Carl Gustav Hempel,Hilary Putnam Pdf

Author : Mario BUNGE
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 318 pages
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Release : 1983-08-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 902771634X

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Treatise on Basic Philosophy: Volume 6 by Mario BUNGE Pdf

Author : Wolfgang Pietsch
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 308 pages
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Release : 2021-12-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030864422

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On the Epistemology of Data Science by Wolfgang Pietsch Pdf

This book addresses controversies concerning the epistemological foundations of data science: Is it a genuine science? Or is data science merely some inferior practice that can at best contribute to the scientific enterprise, but cannot stand on its own? The author proposes a coherent conceptual framework with which these questions can be rigorously addressed. Readers will discover a defense of inductivism and consideration of the arguments against it: an epistemology of data science more or less by definition has to be inductivist, given that data science starts with the data. As an alternative to enumerative approaches, the author endorses Federica Russo’s recent call for a variational rationale in inductive methodology. Chapters then address some of the key concepts of an inductivist methodology including causation, probability and analogy, before outlining an inductivist framework. The inductivist framework is shown to be adequate and useful for an analysis of the epistemological foundations of data science. The author points out that many aspects of the variational rationale are present in algorithms commonly used in data science. Introductions to algorithms and brief case studies of successful data science such as machine translation are included. Data science is located with reference to several crucial distinctions regarding different kinds of scientific practices, including between exploratory and theory-driven experimentation, and between phenomenological and theoretical science. Computer scientists, philosophers and data scientists of various disciplines will find this philosophical perspective and conceptual framework of great interest, especially as a starting point for further in-depth analysis of algorithms used in data science.

Author : Donald T. Campbell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 644 pages
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Release : 1988-10-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0226092488

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Methodology and Epistemology for Social Sciences by Donald T. Campbell Pdf

Selections from the work of an influential contributor to the methodology of the social sciences. He treats: measurement, experimental design, epistemology, and sociology of science each section introduced by the editor, Samuel Overman. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Author : Carl G. Hempel,H. Putnam,Wilhelm K. Essler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
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Release : 2014-09-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9401576777

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Methodology, Epistemology, and Philosophy of Science by Carl G. Hempel,H. Putnam,Wilhelm K. Essler Pdf

Author : G.L. Pandit
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 250 pages
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Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401576802

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The Structure and Growth of Scientific Knowledge by G.L. Pandit Pdf

Professor Pandit, working among the admirable group of philosophers at the University of Delhi, has written a fundamental criticism and a constructive re-interpretation of all that has been preserved as serious epistemological and methodological reflections on the sciences in modern Western philosoph- from the times of Galileo, Newton, Descartes and Leibniz to those of Russell and Wittgenstein, Carnap and Popper, and, we need hardly add, onward to the troubling relativisms and reconstructions of historical epistemologies in the works of Hanson, Kuhn, Lakatos and Feyerabend. His themes are intrigu ing, set forth as they are with masterly case studies of physics and the life sciences, and within an original conceptual framework for philosophical analysis of the processes, functions, and structures of scientific knowing. Pandit's contributions deserve thoughtful examination. For our part, we wish to point to some among them: (1) an interactive articulation of subjective and objective factors of both problems and theories in the course of scientific development; (2) a striking contrast between the explanatory power of a scientific theory and its 'resolving power', i. e.

Author : John Bengson,Terence Cuneo,Russ Shafer-Landau
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 188 pages
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Release : 2022-03-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192676672

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Philosophical Methodology by John Bengson,Terence Cuneo,Russ Shafer-Landau Pdf

Philosophical Methodology is a book addressed to the entire philosophical community. It develops a novel account of the structure and goals of inquiry, offers the first systematic discussion of philosophical data, and assesses extant philosophical methods. Introducing a new method for doing philosophy, it positions theorists to better understand their topics while also revealing how philosophy can continue to make progress in answering its foremost questions.

Author : Wenceslao J. González
Publisher : Netbiblo
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Science
ISBN : 0972989234

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Contemporary Perspectives in Philosophy and Methodology of Science by Wenceslao J. González Pdf

Nowadays, philosophy and methodology of science appear as a combination of novelty and continuity. This blend is clear both in the general approaches to science (those thought of as any science) and in the specific perspectives on every science, either formal or empirical. There are new topics for philosophical reflection, such as key issues in philosophy of medicine and central problems raised by neuroscience. Thus, new contents have brought attention to aspects that previously went almost unnoticed. In addition, there are new angles for philosophical study, such as the repercussion of society on scientific activity (in aims, processes, and results). But the background of the main philosophical and methodological trends of the twentieth century is, in many ways, still in place.

Author : Mauricio Suárez,Mauro Dorato,Miklós Rédei
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 336 pages
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Release : 2010-01-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789048132638

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EPSA Epistemology and Methodology of Science by Mauricio Suárez,Mauro Dorato,Miklós Rédei Pdf

These volumes collect a selection of papers presented at the Founding Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association meeting in Madrid. The volumes provide an excellent overview of the state of the art in philosophy of science as practised nowadays in different European countries.

Author : Mario BUNGE
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 1985-07-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9027719144

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Treatise on Basic Philosophy: Volume 7 by Mario BUNGE Pdf