This is not "another collection of contributions on a traditional subject." Even more than we dared to expect during the preparatory stages, the papers in this volume prove that our thinking about science has taken a new turn and has reached a new stage. The progressive destruction of the received view has been a fascinating and healthy experience. At present, the period of destruction is over. A richer and more equilibrated analysis of a number of problems is possible and is being cru'ried out. In this sense, this book comes right on time. We owe a lot to the scholars of the Kuhnian period. They not only did away with obstacles, but in several respects instigated a shift in attention that changed history and philosophy of science in a irreversible way. A c1earcut example - we borrow it from the paper by Risto Hilpinen - concerns the study of science as a process, Rnd not only as a result. Moreover, they apparently reached several lasting results, e.g., concerning the tremendous impact of theoretical conceptions on empirical data. Apart from baffling people for several decades, this insight rules out an­ other return to simple-minded empiricism in the future.

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Diderik Batens, Jean Paul van Bendegem, Jean-Paul van Bendegem

Springer Science + Business Media BV

Springer London, Limited

Synthese library, Dordrecht, 1988

Springer Nature, Dordrecht, 2012

Netherlands, Netherlands

1988, 2012

1, 2011

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Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Do Experiments Depend on Theories or Theories on Experiments?....Pages 3-13
On Experimental Questions....Pages 15-29
Front Matter....Pages 31-31
Reconstructing Science: Discovery and Experiment....Pages 33-53
The Role of Experiment and Theory in the Development of Nuclear Physics in the Early 1930’s....Pages 55-76
Empirical Support for the Corpuscular Theory in the Seventeenth Century....Pages 77-92
Theory and Experiment in the Early Writings of Johan Baptist Van Helmont....Pages 93-101
The Significance of Empirical Evidence for Developments in the Foundations of Decision Theory....Pages 103-121
Testing Freudian Hypotheses....Pages 123-140
Experiment, Theory Choice, and the Duhem-Quine Problem....Pages 141-155
Front Matter....Pages 157-157
Physical Reality and Closed Theories in Werner Heisenberg’s Early Papers....Pages 159-176
Experiment and Theory in Ptolemy’s Optics ....Pages 177-188
Newton’s and Goethe’s Colour Theories — Contradictory or Complementary Approaches?....Pages 189-206
On the Structure of Physics as a Science....Pages 207-225
Models and Interpretation in Human Sciences: Anthropology and the Theoretical Notion of Field....Pages 227-241
On the Dynamics of Scientific Paradigms....Pages 243-258
Breaking the Link between Methodology and Rationality. A Plea for Rhetoric in Scientific Inquiry....Pages 259-276
Back Matter....Pages 277-291

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