Critical appraoches to science & philosophy Mario Bunge, editor, with a new introduction by the editor
Publisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Transaction Publishers, 1999.
ISBN: 0765804271
DDC: 100
LCC: B29
Edition: (paper : alk. paper)
Summary:
"This collection of essays, written on four continents by scientists,
philosophers, and humanists, was initially presented to Karl R.
Popper on his sixtieth birthday as a token of critical admiration and
in recognition of his work. But the volume also stands on its own as
a remarkable series of statements utilizing Popper's critical vision
in the study of philosophy proper, logic, mathematics, science as
method and theory, and finally in the study of society and history."
"The core position of this volume and its contributors is that the
progress of knowledge is not a linear accumulation of definitive
acquisitions but a zig-zagging process in which counterexamples and
unfavorable evidence ruin generalizations and prompt the invention of
more comprehensive and sometimes deeper generalizations, to be
criticized in their turn. A critical approach to problems,
procedures, and results in every field of inquiry is therefore a
necessary condition for the continuance of progress."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes:
Originally published: The critical approach to science and
philosophy. Glencoe, London: The Free Press, 1964.
Language: eng
Physical Description: xvii, 480 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Edition Info: (paper : alk. paper)
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