Omówienie źródła
Contents
Editors’ introduction
Introduction: Science and pseudoscience
- Falsification and the methodology of scientific research programmes
- Science: reason or religion?
- Fallibilism versus falsificationism
- Dogmatic (or naturalistic) falsificationism. The empirical basis
- Methodological falsificationism. The “empirical basis”
- Sophisticated versus naive methodological falsificationism. Progressive and degenerating problemshifts
- A methodology of scientific research programmes
- Negative heuristic: the “hard core” of the programme
- Positive heuristic: the construction of the “protective belt” and the relative autonomy of theoretical science
- Two illustrations: Prout and Bohr
- A new look at crucial experiments: the end of instant rationality
- Conclusion. The requirement of continuous growth
- The Popperian versus the Kuhnian research programme
- History of science and its rational reconstructions
- Rival methodologies of science; rational reconstructions as guides to history
- Critical comparison of methodologies: history as a test of its rational reconstructions
- Popper on demarcation and induction
- (with Elie Zahar) Why did Copernicus’s research programme supersede Ptolemy’s?
- Newton’s effect on scientific standards
References
Lakatos bibliography
Indexes