After Popper, Kuhn and Feyerabend: Recent Issues in Theories of Scientific Method

by Robert Nola (Editor), Howard Sankey (Editor)

Ten papers, some from a conference in Aukland in July 1997, consider the state of the philosophy of science after the recent departure of the three giants Karl Popper (1902-94), Thomas Kuhn (1922-96), and Paul Feyerabend (1924-94). Philosophers from Australia and abroad explore such topics as how we know about electrons, the rationality of the chemical revolution, what inductivism is and why it is off the agenda, whether epistemology is adequate to the task of rational theory evaluation, naturalism logicized, how revolutionary Kuhn's account of theoretical change is, and idealization and commensurability as hard problems in the philosophy of science. There is no subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

280 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1899