The Relevance of History to Philosophy of Science

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Published 06-01-2010
DOI https://doi.org/10.1387/theoria.538
Robert HUDSON

Abstract

I argue for the possibility of historicized philosophy of science, and then respond to three criticisms of view: 1) history of science provides too few case examples to be useful to philosophy, 2) philosophy based on history is prone to reflexive inconsistency and 3) history of science exhibits an incoherent flux of methods.

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HUDSON, R. (2010). The Relevance of History to Philosophy of Science. THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science, 21(2), 197–212. https://doi.org/10.1387/theoria.538
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Keywords

historicized philosophy of science, induction, reflexivity, flux, methodology, evidence, Joseph Pitt, Nicolas Rasmussen.

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Vol. 21 No. 2 (2006): Knowledge, Memory and Perception
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ARTICLES

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