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English Pages VI, 250 Seiten [259] Year 1999
Table of contents :
Editors' introduction
Introduction: science and pseudoscience
1. Falsification and the methodology of scientific research programmes
2. History of science and its rational reconstructions
3. Popper on demarcation and induction
4. Why did Copernicus's research programme supersede Ptolemy's?
5. Newton's effect on scientific standards
References
Lakatos bibliography
Indexes.