A progression in scientific methodology. A sequel to "Scientific Revolutions", this book is useful in the fields of artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology and education. It identifies the task of science as representing reality and Newton's mechanics, Einstein's relativity and quantum mechanics, then, all serve as representational spaces.
A progression in scientific methodology. A sequel to "Scientific Revolutions", this book is useful in the fields of artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology and education. It identifies the task of science as representing reality and Newton's mechanics, Einstein's relativity and quantum mechanics, then, all serve as representational spaces.
Edwin H.-C. Hung is Reader/Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. He studied philosophy at Oxford University, where he obtained his doctoral degree (D.Phil.). He has been an honorary fellow of Linacre College (Oxford), a research associate at the Center of Philosophy and History of Science of Boston University, and a visiting scholar at Harvard University, MIT, and the Minnesota Center for the Philosophy of Science. He has published widely in the fields of philosophy of science, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of logic and philosophy of language, including the book, The Nature of Science: Problems and Perspectives (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1997, 502 pages).
Inhaltsangabe
Contents: Foreword I, Rom Harré Foreword II, Peter Lipton Preface Introduction: The road to Kuhn and beyond A new logic of explanation Structure of conceptual theories I: category systems Structure of conceptual theories II: representational spaces Structure of conceptual theories III: languages Incommensurability Scientific growth Physical necessity: a cross-theoretic notion Projective explanation: deduction lost, deduction regained Epilogue Bibliography Index.
Contents: Foreword I, Rom Harré Foreword II, Peter Lipton Preface Introduction: The road to Kuhn and beyond A new logic of explanation Structure of conceptual theories I: category systems Structure of conceptual theories II: representational spaces Structure of conceptual theories III: languages Incommensurability Scientific growth Physical necessity: a cross-theoretic notion Projective explanation: deduction lost, deduction regained Epilogue Bibliography Index.
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