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The Structure and Growth of Scientific Knowledge. A Study in the Methodology of Epistemic Appraisal.
G.L. Pandit
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Paperback. Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 379.
Professor Pandit, working among the admirable group of philosophers at the University of Delhi, has written a fundamental criticism and a constructive re-interpretation of all that has been preserved as serious epistemological and methodological reflections on the sciences in modern Western philosoph- from the times of Galileo, Newton, Descartes and Leibniz to those of Russell and Wittgenstein, Carnap and Popper, and, we need hardly add, onward to the troubling relativisms and reconstructions of historical epistemologies in the works of Hanson, Kuhn, Lakatos and Feyerabend. His themes are intrigu ing, set forth as they are with masterly case studies of physics ... Read more
Professor Pandit, working among the admirable group of philosophers at the University of Delhi, has written a fundamental criticism and a constructive re-interpretation of all that has been preserved as serious epistemological and methodological reflections on the sciences in modern Western philosoph- from the times of Galileo, Newton, Descartes and Leibniz to those of Russell and Wittgenstein, Carnap and Popper, and, we need hardly add, onward to the troubling relativisms and reconstructions of historical epistemologies in the works of Hanson, Kuhn, Lakatos and Feyerabend. His themes are intrigu ing, set forth as they are with masterly case studies of physics ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
253
Condition
New
Series
Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
Number of Pages
231
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789048183753
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V9789048183753
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