The rationality of science / W.H. Newton-Smith.

Author: Newton-Smith, W.

Imprint:Boston : Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981.

Descriptionxii, 294 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Note:Includes index.

Note:The rational image -- Observation, theory and truth -- Popper: the irrational rationalist -- In search of the methodologist's stone -- T.S. Kuhn: from revolutionary to social democrat -- Feyerabend, the passionate liberal -- Theories are incommensurable? -- The thesis of verisimilitude -- Scientific method -- Strong programmes -- Temperate rationalism.

Bibliography Note:Bibliography: p. 282-287.

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