Scientific progress
Subtitle: a study concerning the nature of the relation between successive scientific theories
By: Craig Dilworth.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Kluwer Academic
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Dordrecht; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
Subjects: Science -- Philosophy.; Science -- Methodology.
Description: The aim of Synthese Library is to provide a forum for the best current work in the methodology and philosophy of science and in epistemology. A wide variety of different approaches have traditionally been represented in the Library, and every effort will be made to maintain this variety, not for its own sake, but because we believe that there are many fruitful and illuminating approaches to the philosophy of science and related disciplines.

Special attention is paid to methodological studies which illustrate the interplay of empirical and philosophical viewpoints and to contributions to the formal (logical, set-theoretical, mathematical, information-theoretical, decision-theoretical, etc.) methodology of empirical sciences. Likewise, the applications of logical methods to epistemology as well as philosophically and methodologically relevant studies in logic are strongly encouraged.

The emphasis on logic will be tempered by interest in the psychological, historical, and sociological aspects of science.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [224]-233) and index.