Change and Progress in Modern Science

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Reflections on Change.
• I. Historical Dimensions.
• The Mechanical Philosophy and Its Problems: Mechanical Explanations, Impenetrability, and Perpetual Motion.
• Ghosts in the World Machine: A Taxonomy of Leibnizian Forces.
• The Notion of Experimental Physics in Early Eighteenth-Century France.
• Some Pragmatic Aspects of the Methodology of Johann Heinrich Lambert.
• Classical Wage Theory and the Causal Complications of Explaining Distribution.
• Genetic Epistemology in the Context of Evolutionary Epistemology.
• II. Conceptual Considerations.
• Truthlikeness, Realism, and Progressive Theory-Change.
• In Praise of Cumulative Progress.
• Kuhn’s Critique of Methodology.
• Scientific Discovery and Theory-Confirmation.
• Meaning, Acceptance, and Dialectics.
• Extraterrestrial Science.