CORRESPONDENCE, INVARIANCE AND HEURISTICS by Steven French (Editor), Harmke Kamminga (Editor) ( 9780792320852 )

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Title:

CORRESPONDENCE, INVARIANCE AND HEURISTICS
ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF HEINZ POST

By:

Steven French (Editor), Harmke Kamminga (Editor)

Format:

Hardback

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ISBN 10:

0792320859

ISBN 13:

9780792320852

Publisher:

KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS

Pub. date:

15 April, 1993

Series:

Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science v. 148

Pages:

364

Description:

Drawing attention to the formal flaws in theories that motivate theory modification, the correspondence relations that hold between old and new theories and the cross-theoretic retention of symmetry and conservation principles, this volume is dedicated to Heinz Post who proposed a rational model of scientific discovery.

Synopsis:

This volume is presented in honour of Heinz Post, who founded a distinc- tive and distinguished school of philosophy of science at Chelsea College, University of London. The 'Chelsea tradition' in philosophy of science takes the content of science seriously, as exemplified by the papers presented here. The unifying theme of this work is that of 'Correspondence, Invariance and Heuristics', after the title of a classic and seminal paper by Heinz Post, published in 1971, which is reproduced in this volume with the kind permission of the editors and publishers of Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Described by Paul Feyerabend in Against Method as "brilliant" and " ...a partial antidote against the view which I try to defend" (1975, p. 61, fn. 17), this paper, peppered with illustrative examples from the history of science, brings to the fore some of Heinz Post's central concerns: the heuristic criteria used by scientists in constructing their theories, the intertheoretic relationships which these criteria reflect and, in particular, the nature of the correspondence that holds between a theory and its predecessors (and its suc- cessors).The appearance of this volume more than twenty years later is an indica- tion of the fruitfulness of Post's contribution: philosophers of science continue to explore the issues raised in his 1971 paper.

Illustrations:

1 black & white tables, biography

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Imprint:

Kluwer Academic Publishers

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