Overview
- Devises a new account of scientific methodology to show how scientists sometimes manage to find true models of reality
- Contrasts this new methodology with 'coherence theories' of knowledge
- Suggests a new solution to the empirical under-determination problem
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The book sets an ambitious goal. It devises a new account of scientific methodology that makes it possible to explain how scientists manage, at least occasionally, to find true models of reality. The new methods may be contrasted with all those currently available that employ “coherence theories” of knowledge. Under this designation are grouped positions that can seem very different (such as those of Poincaré, Duhem, Popper, Hempel, Quine, Kuhn, and Feyerabend) but are united by the idea that the most general statements of science are merely hypotheses. They may be conjectures, opinions, conventions, posits, paradigms, or even myths. The most we can claim to know from such generalities is that they are internally consistent and coherent with empirical data. Consistency is insufficient to establish the truth of a conceptual system because many different systems, perhaps an infinite number, can be logically consistent and cohere with recorded data. Such is the well-known problemof the empirical under-determination of theories. Francis Bacon’s Skeptical Recipes for New Knowledge suggests a new methodology that solves this fundamental problem of knowledge.
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Jagdish Hattiangadi is Professor of Philosophy at York University, Canada.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Francis Bacon’s Skeptical Recipes for New Knowledge
Authors: Jagdish Hattiangadi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-52585-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-52584-1Published: 31 March 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-52587-2Due: 01 May 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-52585-8Published: 30 March 2024
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXI, 290
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations