The Rationality of Scientific Discovery Part I: The Traditional Rationality Problem
- 1 June 1974
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Philosophy of Science
- Vol. 41 (2) , 123-153
- https://doi.org/10.1086/288579
Abstract
The basic task of the essay is to exhibit science as a rational enterprise. I argue that in order to do this we need to change quite fundamentally our whole conception of science. Today it is rathe...Keywords
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