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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Scientific Change"”.
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A Theory of Scientific Change
… moment of history, there are theories that the scientific community of the time accepts as the best available descriptions of reality. In addition, there are methods which the scientific community of the time employs in theory assessment. This set of all accepted theories and all employed …
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Scientific change and the meanings of terms : an examination of P.K. Feyerabend's incommensurability theses
Feyerabend's incommensurability thesis concerning scientific change engenders a number of logical problems. While it is possible to examine Feyerabend's theory in relation to his historical arguments, the defects implicit in his arguments for the theory render more appropriate an analytical …
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Managing scientific change in agricultural policies: soil productivity, resource conservation and the legitimation of agrobiology
… the conditions presiding over conceptual changes in soil sciences in Québec since 1960, and the legitimation of research in agrobiology. At the beginning of the seventies, researchers in soil sciences opted for a physico-chemical interpretation of soil fertility phenomena and for a …
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Theories, experiments, and human agents: the controversy between emissionists and undulationists in Britain, 1827-1859
… dissertation is an interdisciplinary study of scientific change. The undulatory theory of light replaces the emission theory of light in the early nineteenth century, triggering an "optical revolution" and vigorous debates among physicists in British from the 1830s to the 1850s. In this study I …
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Connectionism, disciplinary identity and continuity
… are tacitly structured by Kuhn's model of scientific change. As certain claims which the actors would describe as purely cognitive can be accounted for by the presence in common scholarly parlance of a particular philosophical model of scientific change, I conclude that in the confrontation …
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Rorty, Davidson, and Metaphor
… can be used to argue that cultural, moral, and scientific change (all products of metaphor) are contingent. I will argue that Davidson's view of metaphor is not consistent with Davidson's overall principles of theory construction, and, hence, is not consistent with his theory of linguistic …
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Conceptual problems in theory appraisal
… is to examine the role of conceptual problems in scientific change, especially in the processes of theory appraisal. In the thesis I begin with a review of Buchdahl's, Toulmin's, and Laudan's works on conceptual problems. In the review I show that, although all these writers emphasize the …
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Scientific phenomenology and science studies: Gaston Bachelard and the concept of phenomenotechnique
… science aware of the discontinuous structure of scientific change and the dynamics of the scientific mind. Bachelard often argued that the historical and technical progress of the sciences show that the purely descriptive and classificatory features of past science are sooner or later substituted …