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" Models of Scientific Development and the Case of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance "
by Henk Zandvoort.
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719830
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b539523
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by Henk Zandvoort.
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Models of Scientific Development and the Case of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance\ by Henk Zandvoort.
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Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1986
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Synthese library, 184.
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(304 pages)
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940094764X
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: 9789400947641
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I. Research Programmes and Criteria for Cognitive Success: Some Views from Recent Philosophy of Science --;1. Popper's view on scientific progress --;2. What counts as a proper prediction? --;3. Lakatos's view on scientific development: research programmes --;4. Criteria for a successful research programme --;5. Guide to the next chapters --;II. The Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Experiment: The Birth of a New Research Programme --;1. The prehistory of the nmr experiment --;2. The nmr experiment and its underlying theory --;3. Global significance of the nmr experiment: the birth of a new research programme --;4. Local significance of the first nmr experiments: disconfirming the prevailing theory of the nmr phenomenon --;5. Gorter's bad luck, or why he did not win a Nobel prize --;III. Lakatos's Theory and the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Programme; The Conceptual Adequacy of Lakatos's Theory --;1. The descriptive claims connected with Lakatos's theory of scientific development --;2. The nmr programme and the conceptual adequacy of Lakatos's theory --;3. A first modification of Lakatos's theory --;IV. The Development of the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Programme; The Explanatory Failure of Lakatos's Theory --;1. The BPP theory of nuclear magnetic relaxation; its Lakatosian merits; and some methodological problems encountered in establishing such merits --;2. Line shapes in solids --;3. Nmr phenomena in metals --;4. The chemical shift --;5. A shift in liquids due to paramagnetic ions --;6. The hyper fine splitting --;7. Remarks on later developments of the nmr programme --;8. Conclusions --;V. Theories from the Nmr Programme as Theories of Measurement: Resolving the Anomaly --;1. Nmr theories as theories of measurement --;2. The phenomena being observed in applying theories of nmr belong to other domains --;3. The dependence of the nmr programme on extrinsic success --;VI. The Structure of Theory Development: The Nmr Programme Seen from the Structuralist Perspective --;1. The structuralist perspective on 'normal science' --;2. The theory net representing the nmr programme --;3. The nature of the elaboration relation 190 --;4. Elucidation of the 'conceptual' terms of Lakatos's theory --;VII. Intrinsic Success and Extrinsic Success of Research Programmes; A Model of Scientific Development Unifying the Approaches of Lakatos and the Starnberg School --;1. External influentiability according to the Starnberg school; two successive models --;2. The limitations of Lakatos's model and of the Starnberg finalization model --;3. Intrinsic success and extrinsic success of research programmes --;4. Links with the views of the physicists: Weisskopf, Casimir, Weinberg --;Notes --;Index of Names.
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From the nineteen sixties onwards a branch of philosophy of science has come to development, called history-oriented philosophy of science. to develop accounts of science that would be more adequate for understanding the development 1 of real life science.
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History.
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Philosophy (General)
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Science -- Philosophy.
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Henk Zandvoort
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