Crucial Experiments an Scientific Progress. Duhem, Quine and Lakatos Approaches

• Authors: Michalska A.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Pierre Duhem was first to undermine the possibility of conducting crucial experiments in science. Experiment, as he states, can neither verify, nor falsify any hypothesis - the choice of one theory over the other is not governed solely by facts. As is commonly stated, Duhem's results was amplified by Quine. The article discusses Quine's contribution to the considered issue and Lakatos' attempt to overcome the difficulties pointed out by Duhem and Quine which has resulted in a novel formulation of the demarcation problem.

Keywords

EN

CRUCIAL EXPERIMENTS; DEMARCATION IN SCIENCE

Discipline

• SCIENCE_OF_SCIENCE: SCIENCE OF SCIENCE

• Publisher: Science Studies Committee, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Zagadnienia Naukoznawstwa
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 43
• Issue: 1)171)
• Pages: 47-61
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Michalska A.

• A. Michalska, ul. Jaracza 60 m. 2, 50-305 Wroclaw, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

07PLAAAA03016186