Correspondence, Invariance and Heuristics
Subtitle: Essays in Honour of Heinz Post
By: edited by Steven French, Harmke Kamminga
Contributors: Kamminga, Harmke
Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science -- 148; Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science -- 148
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Dordrecht
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 363
ISBN-13: 9789048142293; 9789401711852
Subjects: Philosophy (General); Humanities; Science; Genetic epistemology; Philosophy; History
Description: This volume is dedicated to Heinz Post who proposed a rational model of scientific discovery. His account draws attention to the formal flaws in theories that motivate theory modification, the correspondence relations that hold between old and new theories and the cross-theoretic retention of symmetry and conservation principles. Exploring Post's model from a variety of perspectives, the contributors draw on a wide range of case studies from physics, chemistry and biology. This is the first work to examine one such model of heuristics in the context of detailed examples from science itself. It will be of interest to teachers, researchers and graduate students in both the history and philosophy of science and can be used as a textbook in advanced courses on scientific method.
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