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Analytic Synthetic Distinction
Author_William Bechtel
Axiomatic Structure
Boyle Charles Law
Bridge Laws
Cadaveric Matter
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Childbed Fever
cognitive
cognitive neuroscience models
deductive
Deductive Nomological Model
EKG Machine
Enumerative Induction
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Folk Ascriptions
Folk Psychology
Higher Level Sciences
Higher Level Theories
Hypothetico Deductive Method
interdisciplinary research methods
level
logical
logical empiricism
lower
Lower Level Laws
Lower Level Science
Lower Level Theory
model
nomological
Original Problem Solution
philosophy of scientific disciplines
positivism
Prototypicality Judgments
Quantificational Logic
reductionism debate
Research Programme
scientific paradigms
Sentential Logic
theory
theory integration
Theory Reduction
True General Statement
Vice Versa
Product details
- ISBN 9780898596953
- Weight: 440g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Apr 1988
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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This text focuses on two major issues: the nature of scientific inquiry and the relations between scientific disciplines. Designed to introduce the basic issues and concepts in the philosophy of science, Bechtel writes for an audience with little or no philosophical background.
The first part of the book explores the legacy of Logical Positivism and the subsequent post-Positivistic developments in the philosophy of science. The second section examines arguments for and against using a model of theory reduction to integrate scientific disciplines. The book concludes with a chapter describing non-reductionist approaches for relating scientific disciplines using psycholinguistic and cognitive neuroscience models.
