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Part of the book series: The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science (WONS, volume 19)
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This book consists of a collection of essays written between 1965 and 1981. Some have been published elsewhere; others appear here for the first time. Although dealing with different figures and different periods, they have a common theme: all are concerned with examining how the method of hy pothesis came to be the ruling orthodoxy in the philosophy of science and the quasi-official methodology of the scientific community. It might have been otherwise. Barely three centuries ago, hypothetico deduction was in both disfavor and disarray. Numerous rival methods for scientific inquiry - including eliminative and enumerative induction, analogy and derivation from first principles - were widely touted. The method of hypothesis, known since antiquity, found few proponents between 1700 and 1850. During the last century, of course, that ordering has been inverted and - despite an almost universal acknowledgement of its weaknesses - the method of hypothesis (usually under such descriptions as 'hypothetico deduction' or 'conjectures and refutations') has become the orthodoxy of the 20th century. Behind the waxing and waning of the method of hypothesis, embedded within the vicissitudes of its fortunes, there is a fascinating story to be told. It is a story that forms an integral part of modern science and its philosophy.
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Science and Hypothesis
Book Subtitle: Historical Essays on Scientific Methodology
Authors: Larry Laudan
Series Title: The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7288-0
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1981
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-015-7290-3Published: 21 April 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-7288-0Published: 17 April 2013
Series ISSN: 1566-659X
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1974
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 260
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary