Contemporary Philosophy of Science in Italy: An Overview |
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Authors: | Pierluigi Barrotta |
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Affiliation: | (1) Dept. of Philosophy, University of Pisa, P.zza Torricelli 3a, 56126 Pisa |
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Abstract: | The paper analyses the development of some themes in the contemporary philosophy of science in Italy. Section 1 reviews the dabate on the legacy of neopositivism. The spread of the philosophy of Popper is outlined in Section 2, with particular regard to the problem of the vindication of induction. Section 3 deals with the debate on the incommensurability thesis, while Section 4 examines its consequences on the possible relationships between historical and epistemological studies of science. The last section is devoted to one of the most recent trends in the Italian philosophy of science: the resumption of Aristotelian dialectics. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. |
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Keywords: | neopositivism induction incommensurability historyand historiography of science dialectics |
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