Scientific Concepts And Investigative Practice

ISBN: 9783110253603 出版年：2012 页码：308 Feest, Uljana Steinle, Friedrich De Gruyter

Recent philosophy and history of science has seen a surge of interest in the role of concepts in scientific research. Scholars working in this new field focus on scientific concepts, rather than theories, as units of analysis and on the ways in which concepts are formed and used rather than on what they represent. They analyze what has traditionally been called the context of discovery, rather than (or in addition to) the context of justification. And they examine the dynamics of research rather than the status of the finished research results. This volume addresses questions raised by these points.