The Foundations of Science and the Concepts of Psychology by Herbert Feigl, Michael Scriven

By Herbert Feigl, Michael Scriven

The rules of technological know-how and the thoughts of Psychology and Psychoanalysis used to be first released in 1956. Minnesota Archive versions makes use of electronic know-how to make lengthy unavailable books once more available, and are released unaltered from the unique college of Minnesota Press variations. this primary quantity of Minnesota reports within the Philosophy of technological know-how offers the various fairly extra consolidated learn of the Minnesota middle for Philosophy of technological know-how. The paintings of the guts, which was once proven in 1953 via a supply from the Louis W. and Maud Hill kin starting place, has up to now been dedicated principally to the philosophical, logical, and methodological difficulties of psychology. many of the twelve papers during this quantity are all for vast philosophical foundations; others ponder particular difficulties of strategy or interpretation. The individuals, a few of whom are represented within the authorship of multiple paper, are Herbert Feigl, director of the guts; Rudolf Carnap; B.F. Skinner; Michael Scriven; Albert Ellis; Antony Flew; L. J. Cronbach; Paul E. Meehl; R. C. greenback; and Wilfrid Sellars.

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O. Wisdom (52). We Max. Language and Philosophy. New York: Cornell Univ. 1. Black, 1949. 2. Braithwaite, R. B. Scientific Explanation. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. , 1953. "Reichenbach's Theory of Probability and Induction," Review of Burks, A. 3. , W. Metaphysics, 4:377-93 (1951). 4. Burks, A. W. "The Presupposition Theory of Induction," Philosophy of Science, 20:177-97(1953). 5. Campbell, Norman R. "The Structure of Theories," in H. Feigl and M. ), Readings in the Philosophy of Science, pp. 288-308.

Illuminating nevertheless. It shows that, while it is impossible to the uniformity of nature, any assumptions concerning the procedure of induction which posits specific uniformities can be pragmatically justified or "vindicated" (18) If the degree of uniformity it is validate over-all in our world were much lower than . would Even still in be a helpful it actually a universe so completely chaotic that were invariably fruitless, is, the rule of induction tool in the anticipation of the as-yet-unknown.

Two reconstruction of empirical quite different forms of logical with science, each its respective advantages and disadvantages, must be distinguished. The idea of a unitary nomological net projection of an ideal science is, which can in a very incomplete outline. Nevertheless, tion of the ing. Only as was just pointed out, the be sketched only such a schematic reconstruc- at present network of concepts and laws can be helpful and illuminatan idealized schema are the concepts designating in such observables connected with the concepts designating unobservables by (Whether these lawful connections are conceived lawful connections.

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