A New Functional Approach to Scientific Progress.
This article develops and defends a new functional approach to scientific progress. I begin with a review of the problems of the traditional functional approach. Then I propose a new functional account of scientific progress, in which scientific progress is defined in terms of usefulness of problem...
| Publicado en: | Philosophy of Science Vol. 86; no. 4; pp. 739 - 759 |
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Cambridge University Press
Oct2019
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