Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Note on the Third Impression
- Logic of Discovery or Psychology of Research?
- Against ‘Normal Science’
- Does the Distinction between Normal and Revolutionary Science Hold Water?
- Normal Science, Scientific Revolutions and the History of Science
- Normal Science and its Dangers
- The Nature of a Paradigm
- Falsification and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes
- Consolations for the Specialist
- Reflections on my Critics
- Index
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2014
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Note on the Third Impression
- Logic of Discovery or Psychology of Research?
- Against ‘Normal Science’
- Does the Distinction between Normal and Revolutionary Science Hold Water?
- Normal Science, Scientific Revolutions and the History of Science
- Normal Science and its Dangers
- The Nature of a Paradigm
- Falsification and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes
- Consolations for the Specialist
- Reflections on my Critics
- Index
Summary
This book constitutes the fourth volume of the Proceedings of the 1965 International Colloquium in the Philosophy of Science held at Bedford College, Regent's Park, London, from 11 to 17 July 1965. The Colloquium was organized jointly by the British Society for the Philosophy of Science and the London School of Economics and Political Science, under the auspices of the Division of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science.
The Colloquium and the Proceedings were generously subsidized by the sponsoring institutions, and by the Leverhulme Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
The members of the Organizing Committee were: W. C. Kneale (Chairman), I. Lakatos (Honorary Secretary), J. W. N. Watkins (Honorary Joint Secretary), S. Körner, Sir Karl Popper, H. R. Post and J. O. Wisdom.
The first three volumes of the Proceedings were published by the North-Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam, under the following titles:
Lakatos (ed.): Problems in the Philosophy of Mathematics, 1967.
Lakatos (ed.): The Problem of Inductive Logic, 1968.
Lakatos and Musgrave (eds.): Problems in the Philosophy of Science, 1968.
The full programme of the Colloquium is printed in the first volume of the Proceedings.
This fourth volume follows the editorial policy pursued in the first three volumes: it is a rational reconstruction and expansion rather than a faithful report of the actual discussion. The whole volume arises from one symposium, the one held on 13 July on Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge.
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- Criticism and the Growth of KnowledgeProceedings of the International Colloquium in the Philosophy of Science, London, 1965, pp. iv - vPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1970