New Philosophical Perspectives on Scientific Progress

This collection of original essays examines scientific progress from various perspectives, including epistemic, semantic, functional, and noetic approaches. It includes case studies of scientific progress in physics, chemistry, evolutionary biology, seismology, psychology, sociology, economics, and medicine. It also explores issues such as scientific realism, incommensurability, values in science, idealization, speculation, interdisciplinarity, and scientific perspectivalism.

Format: Hardback
Length: 414 pages
Publication date: 11 November 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Scientific progress has been a central topic in recent debates in the philosophy of science, and this collection of original essays offers a comprehensive examination of this topic. Traditionally, debates over scientific progress have focused on different methodological approaches, such as the epistemic and semantic approaches. The chapters in Part I of the book examine these two traditional approaches, as well as the newly revived functional and newly developed noetic approaches. Part II features in-depth case studies of scientific progress from the history of science, covering individual sciences such as physics, chemistry, evolutionary biology, seismology, psychology, sociology, economics, and medicine. Finally, Part III of the book explores important issues from contemporary philosophy of science. These chapters address the implications of scientific progress for the scientific realism/anti-realism debate, incommensurability, values in science, idealization, scientific speculation, interdisciplinarity, and scientific perspectivalism.

New Philosophical Perspectives on Scientific Progress will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working on the history and philosophy of science.

Weight: 940g
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367760557