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...

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Published in:	Philosophy of Science Vol. 86; no. 4; pp. 739 - 759
Main Author:	Shan, Yafeng
Format:	Article
Published:	Cambridge University Press Oct2019
Subjects:	History of accounting Progress Problem solving
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost