Maxwell, Nicholas (2023) What Lakatos Overlooked: A Metaphysical “Hard Core” of Unity for Science. [Preprint]
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Abstract
Lakatos held that science proceeds by means of competing research programme, each with its own “hard core” or paradigm. He intended this view to reconcile the competing views of Kuhn and Popper. But what Lakatos overlooked is that science needs to be construed to be one gigantic research programme with, as its “hard core”, a metaphysical thesis that asserts that the universe is such that there is an inherent unity in the laws that govern the way physical phenomena occur. The conception of science that emerges from this insight succeeds in doing what Lakatos’s own view fails to do; it has fruitful implications for science itself, and solves the problem of induction.
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Keywords: | Imre Lakatos; Karl Popper; Thomas Kuhn; Metaphysics for Science; Theory unity; Problem of induction | ||||||
Subjects: | General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics General Issues > Confirmation/Induction General Issues > History of Science Case Studies General Issues > Philosophers of Science Specific Sciences > Physics General Issues > Structure of Theories |
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Depositing User: | Nicholas Maxwell | ||||||
Date Deposited: | 27 Feb 2023 20:19 | ||||||
Last Modified: | 27 Feb 2023 20:19 | ||||||
Item ID: | 21801 | ||||||
Subjects: | General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics General Issues > Confirmation/Induction General Issues > History of Science Case Studies General Issues > Philosophers of Science Specific Sciences > Physics General Issues > Structure of Theories |
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Date: | 27 February 2023 | ||||||
URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/21801 |
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