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" Correspondence Principle and Growth of Science. "
W Krajewski
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Correspondence Principle and Growth of Science.\ W Krajewski
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New York: Springer Oct., 2011
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Episteme Ser., 4.
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940101180X
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: 9789401011808
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1. Correspondence Principle.- 1.1. Bohr's Principle.- 1.2. The Attitude of Philosophers.- 1.3. A General Methodological Principle in Physics.- 1.4. Descriptive and Normative Versions.- 1.5. Some Logical Difficulties.- Notes to Chapter 1.- 2. Idealization and Factualization.- 2.1. Scientific Law an an Implication.- 2.2. Factual and Idealizational Laws.- 2.3. Idealization in Science.- 2.4. The Attitude of Philosophers.- 2.5. Idealization and Factualization.- 2.6. Idealization and Essence.- 2.7. Some Controversial Issues.- Notes to Chapter 2.- 3. Reduction.- 3.1. The Concept of Reduction.- 3.2. Heterogeneous Reduction.- 3.3. Non-Mechanistic Reductionism.- 3.4. Trivial Homogeneous Reduction.- 3.5. Non-Trivial Homogeneous Reduction.- 3.6. Reduction of an Idealizational Law to a Factual One.- Notes to Chapter 3.- 4. Correspondence Relation.- 4.1. Definition.- 4.2. Simple Implicative Version.- 4.3. Approximative Version.- 4.4. Explanative Version.- 4.5. `Dialectical' Version.- 4.6. Renewed Implicative Version.- 4.7. Some Formal Features.- 4.8. Correspondence Sequence and Correspondence Network.- Notes to Chapter 4.- 5. The Problem of the Incommensurability and Relations Among Theories.- 5.1. The Claim of Incommensurability.- 5.2. The Problem of Meaning Variance.- 5.3. The Problem of `Untranslatable' Languages.- 5.4. The Problem of the `Theory-Ladenness' of Facts.- 5.5. Various Relations Among Theories.- Notes to Chapter 5.- 6. The Types of Methodological Empiricism.- 6.1. Inductivism.- 6.2. Hypothetism.- 6.3. Pluralistic Hypothetism.- 6.4. Idealizational Hypothetism.- 6.5. Pluralistic Idealizational Hypothetism.- 6.6. A Confrontation: the Diversity of Methods.- Notes to Chapter 6.- 7. Revolutions and Continuity.- 7.1. Simple Cumulativism (No Revolutions or One Revolution).- 7.2. Simple Anticumulativism (Permanent Revolution or Occasional Revolutions Without Continuity).- 7.3. A Dialectical View (Revolutions and Continuity).- 7.4. The Threshold of Maturity (Two Kinds of Revolutions).- 7.5. Periods of Evolution and of Revolution.- 7.6. The Concept of Revolution and Anti-Cumulative Changes.- Notes to Chapter 7.- 8. Relative and Absolute Truth.- 8.1. Relative Truth.- 8.2. Absolute Truths in Science.- 8.3. Truth-Content and Approximate Truth.- 8.4. The Truth of Idealizational Laws and of Their Factualizations.- 8.5. Relative Truth and Essence.- 8.6. Towards the Absolute Truth.- Notes to Chapter 8.- 9. Internal and External History of Science.- 9.1. Internal and External Factors.- 9.2. The Problem of the Methodological Historicism.- 9.3. Internal History as an Idealization.- Notes to Chapter 9.- Index of Names.
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QC174.17.C5W573 2011
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