VEDECKÝ ZÁKON: K HISTÓRII JEDNÉHO POJMU

• Authors: Hanzel Igor

Title variants

EN

Scientific law: On the history of one concept

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

The aim of this paper is to show the incompleteness of the exclusively logico-syntactical and logico-semantical approaches to one of the core issues of philosophy of science, namely, scientific laws and scientific explanation in C. G. Hempel works. The author starts with a brief exposition of the main characteristics of Hempel approach (labeled 'the D-N model') to the deductive explanations based on the universal scientific laws and then analyzes the problems and paradoxes inherent in this approach. Next, he traces these characteristics back to the Hempel and Carnap attempts to ground the concepts of scientific law and explanation exclusively on logic (i.e. logical syntax and/or logical semantics), which led to a highly normative approach alienated from the practice of real science.

Keywords

EN

'D-N MODELS'; CARNAP R.; HEMPEL C.G.; REAL SCIENCE; SCIENTIFIC LAWS

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Filozofia (Philosophy)
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 62
• Issue: 9
• Pages: 801-812
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Hanzel Igor

• I. Hanzel, Katedra logiky a metodologie vied Filozofickej fakulty Univerzity Komenskeho, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

08SKAAAA03467086