Difference between revisions of "Mechanism of Method Employment"
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|Question=How do ''methods'' become ''employed'' by a community in theory assessment? | |Question=How do ''methods'' become ''employed'' by a community in theory assessment? | ||
|Parent Topic=Mechanism of Scientific Change | |Parent Topic=Mechanism of Scientific Change | ||
| − | |Description=When the classical philosophy of science finally came to terms with the fact that methods of theory assessment do in fact change through time, the question became how exactly they change. Since circa 1980, explaining the process of transitions from one employed method to the next has been one of the most challenging tasks for any theory of scientific change. | + | |Description=When the classical philosophy of science finally came to terms with the fact that methods of theory assessment do in fact change through time, the question became how exactly they change. Since circa 1980, explaining the process of transitions from one employed method to the next has been one of the most challenging tasks for any theory of scientific change. A proper answer to this key question helps to understand one of the key aspects of scientific change. |
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| − | A proper answer to this key question helps to understand the | ||
|Year Formulated=2015 | |Year Formulated=2015 | ||
|Author=Hakob Barseghyan | |Author=Hakob Barseghyan | ||
Revision as of 03:47, 20 August 2016
References
- ^ Laudan (1984)
- ^ McMullin, Ernan. (1988) The Shaping of Scientific Rationality: Construction and Constraint. In McMullin (Ed.) (1988), 1-47.
- a b c Barseghyan, Hakob. (2015) The Laws of Scientific Change. Springer.
- ^ Sebastien, Zoe. (2016) The Status of Normative Propositions in the Theory of Scientific Change. Scientonomy 1, 1-9. Retrieved from https://www.scientojournal.com/index.php/scientonomy/article/view/26947.
