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The rationality of science / W.H. Newton-Smith.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Newton-Smith, W.
- Newton-Smith W H Staff, Corporate Author.
- Series:
- International Library of Philosophy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Methodology.
- Science--Philosophy.
- Science.
- Rationalism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (307 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A clear, original and systematic introduction to philosophy of science which examines the theories of Popper, Lakatos, Kuhn and Feyerabend before proposing a new, temperate rationalist perspective.
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; The Rational Image; Observation, Theory and Truth; Popper; The Irrational Rationalist; In Search of the Methodologist's Stone; T.S.Kuhn: From Revolutionary to Social Democrat; Feyerabend, the Passionate Liberal; Theories are Incommensurable?; The Thesis of Verisimilitude; Scientific Method; Strong Programmes; Temperate Rationalism; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Originally published : London : Routledge &Kegan Paul Ltd., 1981.
- Includes bibliography (p. 282-287) and index.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-93096-8
- 1-280-11022-8
- 9786610110223
- 1-134-93097-6
- 0-203-04615-3
- 9780203046159
- OCLC:
- 55107883
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