{"product_id":"9781402038372","title":"Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science: An Account of Modern Science in Terms of Principles, Laws and Theories","description":"\u003ch1\u003eBoston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science: An Account of Modern Science in Terms of Principles, Laws and Theories\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eDilworth, Craig\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe roots of this work lie in my earlier book, Scientific Progress, which first appeared in 1981. One of its topics, the distinction - tween scientific laws and theories, is there treated with reference to the same distinction as drawn by N. R. Campbell in his Physics: The Elements. Shortly after completing Scientific Progress, I read Rom Harré’s The Principles of Scientific Thinking, in which the concept of theory is even more clearly delineated than in Campbell, being directly connected to the notion of a model – as it was in my book. In subsequent considerations regarding science, Harré’s work thus - came my main source of inspiration with regard to theories, while Campbell’s remained my main source with respect to empirical laws. Around the same time I also read William Whewell’s Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences. In this work, Whewell depicts principles as playing a central role in the formation of science, and conceives of them in much the same way as Kant conceives of fundamental synthetic a priori judgements. The idea that science should have principles as a basic element immediately made sense to me, and from that time I have thought of science in terms of laws, theories and principles.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Springer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2006-01-23\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9781402038372\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-1-4020-3838-9\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 235cm x155cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 333\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer Netherlands","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45378515402892,"sku":"9781402038372","price":152.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9781402038372.jpg?v=1772024443","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781402038372","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}