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Título del libro: General Philosophy Of Science: Focal Issues
Título del capítulo: Logical, Historical and Computational Approaches

Autores UNAM:
ATOCHA ALISEDA LLERA;
Autores externos:

Idioma:
Inglés
Año de publicación:
2007
Resumen:

This chapter focuses on the logical, historical and computational approaches to the philosophy of science. It discusses how the logical approach to philosophy of science was introduced by the Vienna Circle, and developed by them and their followers and associates. The logical approach to philosophy of science remained the dominant subject throughout the 1950s; but, from the early 1960s, it was challenged by a striking development of the historical approach. The historical approach was not introduced for the fi{ligature}rst time in the 1960s. On the contrary, it had been developed by Mach and Duhem much earlier. Although, Mach and Duhem are cited by the Vienna Circle as important infl{ligature}uences on their philosophy, the Vienna Circle did not adopt the historical features of these two thinkers. In the excitement generated by the new logic of Frege and Russell, history of science seems to have been temporarily forgotten. The general idea of the historical approach is not new in the 1960s, however, that decade saw striking developments in this approach. After Kuhn, the analysis of scientifi{ligature}c revolutions became a major problem for philosophy of science, while Lakatos applied the historical approach to mathematics for the fi{ligature}rst time. © 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.


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