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Rational changes in science : essays on scientific reasoning

Joseph C. Pitt, Marcello Pera

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I Theoretical Considerations Concerning Rationality and Scientific Change.- How Not to Talk About Conceptual Change in Science.- The Myth of the Framework.- A New View of Scientific Rationality.- Science, Protoscience, and Pseudoscience.- Methodology, Heuristics, and Rationality.- II Rational Scientific Changes.- Galileo and Rationality: The Case of the Tides.- The Quest for Scientific Rationality: Some Historical Considerations.- The Rationality of Discovery: Galvani's Animal Electricity.- The Rationality of Entertainment and Pursuit.- Index of Names.

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Key concepts: Rationality, Ecological rationality, Great Rationality Debate, Epistemology, Philosophy of science, Principle of rationality, Pseudoscience, Philosophy