Beyond Kuhn
Subtitle: scientific explanation, theory structure, incommensurability, and physical necessity
By: Edwin Hung.
Series: Ashgate new critical thinking in philosophy
Publisher: Ashgate Pub.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 146
Subjects: Kuhn, Thomas S.; Science -- Philosophy.; Conceptualism.; Representation (Philosophy); Science -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the road to Kuhn and beyond; title: A new logic of explanation; title: Structure of conceptual theories I: category systems; title: Structure of conceptual theories II: representational spaces; title: Structure of conceptual theories III: languages; title: Incommensurability; title: Scientific growth; title: Physical necessity : a cross-theoretic notion; title: Projective explanation : deduction lost, deduction regained.