Portland-State-University 2017-2018 Bulletin

Phl 570 Philosophy of Science

History and philosophy of the scientific method. Topics include an overview of the major models of the scientific method (inductivism, falsificationism, Kuhnian paradigms, etc.) and issues pertaining to the accuracy of these models and their rationality such as theory- ladenness of observation, testing-holism, and the incommensurability of theory change.

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