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Sociocultural Factors
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Sociocultural Factors
Created page with "The theorem states that sociocultural factors can affect the process of theory acceptance insofar as it is permitted by the method employed at the time. == Pre-History == <d..."
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Possibility: The Argument from Social Construction
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Possibility: The Argument from Social Construction
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Possibility: The Argument from Social Construction
Created page with "The Argument from Social Construction is one of the primary particularist arguments against the possible existence of a general theory of scientific change. There are three fo..."
24 February 2016
Larry Laudan
Created page with "Larry Laudan was an American philosopher who contributed to the study of philosophy of science in the 1970s and 80s. He wrote many works notably, Progress and its Problems (19..."
Gottfried Leibniz
Created page with "Gottfreid Wilhelm Leibniz was a philosopher, mathematician, and polymath born in Leipzig in 1646. == Historical Context == <div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"> Gottfri..."
23 February 2016
Paul Feyerabend
Created page with "Paul Feyerabend is accurately referred to as “the wild man of twentieth century philosophy of science.” By the 1960’s-70’s, the notion of a Dynamic Method Thesis (whi..."
Imre Lakatos
Created page with "Imre Lakatos (1922-1974) was a Hungarian philosopher who studied demarcation criteria and theory choice in science. Working alongside Karl Popper, Lakatos attempted to respond..."
Immanuel Kant
Created page with "Immanuel Kant is best remembered for his attempts to combine both classical empiricism and classical apriorism into a unified method of scientific change. His distinctions, be..."
Karl Popper
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Karl Popper
Created page with "Karl Popper’s epistemological theories on the logic of scientific discovery were his proposal for what constituted a good scientific method. Popper’s early work centered o..."