Difference between revisions of "Scope of Scientonomy - Descriptive and Normative"
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| + | |Question=Should a scientonomic theory be ''descriptive'' or ''normative''? | ||
|Topic Type=Normative | |Topic Type=Normative | ||
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|Parent Topic=Scope of Scientonomy | |Parent Topic=Scope of Scientonomy | ||
| + | |Formulated Year=2015 | ||
|Description=Should a scientonomic theory merely explain how science changes through time, or should it prescribe how science ought to change, or both? | |Description=Should a scientonomic theory merely explain how science changes through time, or should it prescribe how science ought to change, or both? | ||
| − | | | + | |Prehistory=One of the reasons why the classic philosophy of science failed to accomplish its task was the vagueness of its position regarding this question. The theories of Popper, Kuhn, Lakatos, and early Laudan can all be considered either as descriptions of how science changes through time and/or prescriptions of how it ought to change.[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|pp. 12-21]] |
|Author=Hakob Barseghyan, | |Author=Hakob Barseghyan, | ||
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| + | {{Acceptance Record | ||
| + | |Community=Community:Scientonomy | ||
| + | |Accepted From Era=CE | ||
| + | |Accepted From Year=2016 | ||
| + | |Accepted From Month=January | ||
| + | |Accepted From Day=1 | ||
| + | |Accepted From Approximate=Yes | ||
| + | |Still Accepted=Yes | ||
| + | |Accepted Until Approximate=No | ||
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Revision as of 02:52, 3 September 2016
References
- a b c d Barseghyan, Hakob. (2015) The Laws of Scientific Change. Springer.
- ^ Ayer, Alfred Jules. (1952) Language, Truth and Logic. Dover Publications.
- a b Popper, Karl. (1959) The Logic of Scientific Discovery. Hutchinson & Co.
- ^ Popper, Karl. (1963) Conjectures and Refutations. Routledge.
- a b Lakatos, Imre. (1971) History of Science and Its Rational Reconstructions. In Lakatos (1978a), 102-138.
- ^ Kuhn, Thomas. (1962) The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. University of Chicago Press.
- a b Geison, Gerald and Farley, John. (1974) Science, politics and spontaneous generation in nineteenth-century France: the Pasteur-Pouchet debate. Bulletin of the History of Medicine 48 (2), 161-98. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/4617616/.
- ^ Vickers, John. (2014) The Problem of Induction. In Zalta (Ed.) (2016). Retrieved from https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/induction-problem/.
