Revisiting Discovery and Justification (eBook)

Jutta Schickore & Friedrich Steinle - Introduction: Revisiting the Context Distinction Part I The Contexts of the Distinction Don Howard -Lost Wanderers in the Forest of Knowledge: Some Thoughts on the Discovery-Justification Distinction Gregor Schiemann - Inductive Justification and Discovery. On Hans Reichenbach’s Foundation of the Autonomy of the Philosophy of Science Alan Richardson - Freedom in a Scientific Society: Reading the Context of Reichenbach’s Contexts Part II Forerunners? Jutta Schickore - A Forerunner? – Perhaps, but not to the Context Distinction. William Whewell’s Germano-Cantabrigian History of the Fundamental Ideas Lothar Schäfer - Autonomy versus Development: Duhem on Progress in Science Volker Peckhaus - Psychologism and the Distinction between Discovery and Justification Part III Revisions and Applications Paul Hoyningen-Huene - Context of Discovery versus Context of Justification and Thomas Kuhn Thomas Sturm & Gerd Gigerenzer - How Can We Use the Distinction between Discovery and Justification? On Weaknesses of the Strong Programme in Sociology of Science Thomas Nickles - Heuristic Appraisal: Context of Discovery or Justification? Friedrich Steinle - Experiment, Concept Formation and the Limits of Justification: 'Discovering' the Two Electricities Thomas Potthast - Contexts of Justifying and Discovering the Nature of Ecosystems: From Concepts to Objects and vice-versa Theodore Arabatzis - On the Inextricability of the Context of Discovery and the Context of Justification