Progress and its problems
Subtitle: toward a theory of scientific growth
By: Larry Laudan.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1977
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 257
Subjects: Science -- History; Science -- Philosophy
Notes: Bibliography: p. 247-254.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Preface
pagenum: ix; title: Prologue
pagenum: 1; label: Part 1
title: A Model of Scientific Progress; label: 1
title: The Role of Empirical Problems
pagenum: 11; label: 2
title: Conceptual Problems
pagenum: 45; label: 3
title: From Theories to Research Traditions
pagenum: 70; label: 4
title: Progress and revolution
pagenum: 121; label: Part 2
title: Applications; label: 5
title: History and Philosophy of Science
pagenum: 155; label: 6
title: The History of Ideas
pagenum: 171; label: 7
title: rationality and the Sociology of Knowledge
pagenum: 196; title: Epilogue: Beyond Veritas and Praxis
pagenum: 223; title: Notes
pagenum: 227; title: Bibliography
pagenum: 247; title: Index of Names
pagenum: 255