Scientific Progress: A Study Concerning the Nature of the Relation Between Successive Scientific Theories (Hardcover, 4)

Acknowledgments.- Preface to the Second Edition.- Preface to the Third Edition.- Preface to the Fourth Edition.- Introduction.- 1. The Deductive Model.- 2. The Basis of the Logical Empiricist Conception of Science.- 3. The Basis of the Popperian Conception of Science.- 4. The Logical Empiricist Conception of Scientific Progress.- 5. The Popperian Conception of Scientific Progress.- 6. Popper, Lakatos, and the Transcendence of the Deductive Model.- 7. Kuhn, Feyerabend, and Incommensurability.- 8. The Gestalt Model.- 9. The Perspectivist Conception of Science.- 10. Development of the Perspectivist Conception in the Context of the Kinetic Theory of Gases.- 11. The Set-Theoretic Conception of Science.- 12. Application of the Perspectivist Conception to the Views of Newton, Kepler and Galileo.- Appendices.- I. On Theoretical Terms.- II. Reply to Criticism of the First Edition.- III. Perspectivism and Subatomic Physics.- IV. On the Nature of Scientific Laws and Theories.- V. Is the Transition from Absolute to Relative Space a Shift of Conceptual Perspective?- VI. Two Perspectives on Sustainable Development.- VII. Modern Science and the Distinction between Primary and Secondary Qualities.- VIII. A Theory of Identity and Reference.- References.- Index.