Philosophy of Science

An Overview for Cognitive Science

William Bechtel (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

150 Seiten

1988
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc (Verlag)
978-0-89859-695-3 (ISBN)

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This text focuses on two major issues: the nature of scientific inquiry and the relations between scientific disciplines. Designed to introduce the basic issues and concepts in the philosophy of science, Bechtel writes for an audience with little or no philosophical background.

The first part of the book explores the legacy of Logical Positivism and the subsequent post-Positivistic developments in the philosophy of science. The second section examines arguments for and against using a model of theory reduction to integrate scientific disciplines. The book concludes with a chapter describing non-reductionist approaches for relating scientific disciplines using psycholinguistic and cognitive neuroscience models.

William Bechtel

Contents: The Locus of Philosophy of Science. Logical Positivism: The Received View in Philosophy of Science. Challenges to Logical Positivism. Post-Positivist Philosophy of Science. Theory Reduction as a Model for Relating Disciplines. An Alternative Model for Integrating Disciplines.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	13.5.1988
Reihe/Serie	Tutorial Essays in Cognitive Science Series
Verlagsort	Mahwah
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	440 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
	Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-89859-695-5 / 0898596955
ISBN-13	978-0-89859-695-3 / 9780898596953
Zustand	Neuware