Structures in Science - Heuristic Patterns Based on Cognitive Structures - an Advanced Textbook in Neo-Classical Philosophy of Science - Hardback - 2001

Aims at providing heuristic patterns for research. This book introduces four types of research programs and reanimates the distinction between observational laws and proper theories. It explicates various patterns of explanation by subsumption and specification as well as structures in reductive and other types of interlevel research.
Year of publication: 2001
Pagination: 414 pages, biography
Format: Hardback
Serie: Synthese Library