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Alpha Particles
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Dependency Model
DNA Methylation
Earth's Interior
Earth’s Interior
Empirical Adequacy
Epistemic Account
epistemic approach
epistemic approaches
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Exemplary Practices
experimentation
Folk Psychological Concepts
functional and noetic theories of progress
functional approach
Galilean Idealisations
history of science
IDR
incommensurability
Incommensurable Theories
interdisciplinary case studies
Kuhn loss
Model Templates
perspectivism
philosophy of science
Photometric Module
Research Programme
scientific belief
scientific methodology
scientific progress
scientific realism debate
Scientific Speculation
scientific understanding
semantic approach
Shear Waves
Structural Formulae
Transgenerational EI
Transuranic Elements
truth scientific realism
understanding-based approach
values in science
Yafeng Shan

Product details

  • ISBN 9780367760557
  • Weight: 453g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 11 Nov 2022
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Description

This collection of original essays offers a comprehensive examination of scientific progress, which has been a central topic in recent debates in philosophy of science.

Traditionally, debates over scientific progress have focused on different methodological approaches, notably the epistemic and semantic approaches. The chapters in Part I of the book examine these two traditional approaches, as well as the newly revived functional and newly developed noetic approaches. Part II features in-depth case studies of scientific progress from the history of science. The chapters cover individual sciences including physics, chemistry, evolutionary biology, seismology, psychology, sociology, economics, and medicine. Finally, Part III of the book explores important issues from contemporary philosophy of science. These chapters address the implications of scientific progress for the scientific realism/anti-realism debate, incommensurability, values in science, idealisation, scientific speculation, interdisciplinarity, and scientific perspectivalism.

New Philosophical Perspectives on Scientific Progress will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working on the history and philosophy of science.
About

Yafeng Shan is Research Associate in Philosophy at the University of Kent. He is the author of Doing Integrated History and Philosophy of Science: A Case Study of the Origin of Genetics (2020) and the editor of Examining Philosophy Itself (2022).