| Description |
ix, 306 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Kant, Naturphilosophie and scientific method / L. Pearce Williams -- Leading principles and induction: the methodology of Matthais Schleiden / Gerd Buchdahl -- Whewell's logic of induction / Robert E. Butts -- Logic of discovery in Maxwell's electromagnetic theory / Mary Hesse -- Charles Darwin and nineteenth-century philosophies of science / David L. Hull -- The genesis and structure of Claude Bernard's experimental method / Joseph Schiller -- Chabry, Roux, and the experimental method in nineteenth-century embryology / Frederick B. Churchill -- Statistics and social science / Victor L. Hilts -- Alfred Marshall and the development of economics as a science / H. Scott Gordon -- Grove Karl Gilbert and the concept of "hypothesis" in late nineteenth-century geology / David B. Kitts -- Peirce and the trivialization of the self-correcting thesis / Laurens Laudan |
| Notes |
Papers presented at a conference held in Bloomington, Nov. 26-29, 1970, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the founding of the Dept. of History and Philosophy of Science at Indiana University |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Science -- History -- Congresses.
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Science -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses.
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Science -- History.
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Science -- Methodology -- Congresses.
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Science -- Methodology.
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Science -- Philosophy -- Congresses.
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Science -- Philosophy.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Giere, Ronald N.
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Westfall, Richard S., editor
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Indiana University. Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
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| LC no. |
72079910 |
| ISBN |
0253324009 |
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