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Philosophy and meta-philosophy of science: Empiricism, popperianism and realism
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In this paper, an explicit philosophy and meta-philosophy of positivism, empiricism and popperianism is provided, and it is shown how the maximal conflict of this doctrine with all forms of empiricism at the meta-Philosophical level both accounts for the form of its development at the philosophical level and its defense against attack from nonrealist quarters.Abstract:
An explicit philosophy and meta-philosophy of positivism, empiricism and popperianism is provided. Early popperianism is argued to be essentially a form of empiricism, the deviations from empiricism are traced. In contrast, the meta-philosophy and philosophy of an evolutionary naturalistic realism is developed and it is shown how the maximal conflict of this doctrine with all forms of empiricism at the meta-philosophical level both accounts for the form of its development at the philosophical level and its defense against attack from nonrealist quarters. Following an earlier article on realism of similar theme (Synthese 26 (1974), 409) this paper then further explores the ramifications of a thoroughgoing realist position.read more
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TL;DR: In this article, science is analyzed as a special case of marketing, the marketing of ideas in the form of substantive and methodological theories, and the marketing mix, target markets, and marketing objectives are defined.
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Concepts in developmental theories of reading skill: Cognitive resources, automaticity, and modularity.
TL;DR: However, experiments that attempted to trace the development of automatic word recognition processes generated empirical paradoxes because the different criteria employed to operationalize the automaticity concept did not display convergent validity as discussed by the authors.
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Towards a General Theory of Reduction. Part I: Historical and Scientific Setting
TL;DR: The three papers comprising this series, together with my earlier [34] also published in this journal, constitute an attempt to set out the major issues in the theoretical domain of reduction and to develop (tentatively) a general theory of theory reduction as discussed by the authors.
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Evolutionary Epistemology Bibliography
TL;DR: This is a successor to the most complete previous bibliography (Campbell, DT, 1974, Evolutionary Epistemology In PA Schilpp (Ed), The philosophy of Karl R Popper The library of living philosophers as mentioned in this paper ).
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