edited by Robert G. Colodny
University of Pittsburgh Press, 1971
eISBN: 978-0-8229-7589-2 | Paper: 978-0-8229-8428-3 | Cloth: 978-0-8229-3211-6
Library of Congress Classification Q175.N33
Dewey Decimal Classification 501

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
The six essays in this volume discuss philosophical thought on scientific theory including: a call for a realist, rather than instrumentalist interpretation of science; a critique of one of the core ideas of positivism concerning the relation between observational and theoretical languages; using aerodynamics to discuss the representational aspect of scientific theories and their isomorphic qualities; the relationship between the reliability of common sense and the authenticity of the world view of science; removing long-held ambiguities on the theory of inductive logic; and the relationship between the actuality of conceptual revolutions in the history of science and traditional philosophical pictures of scientific theory-building.