کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
1160776 1490365 2007 17 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Renouvier and the method of hypothesis
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی علوم انسانی و هنر تاریخ
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Renouvier and the method of hypothesis
چکیده انگلیسی

Renouvier was among the first philosophers in France to break with the nineteenth-century inductivist tradition and defend the use of hypotheses in science. Earlier in the century, the humanistically-educated eclectic spiritualist philosophers who dominated French academic life had followed Reid in proscribing the use of hypotheses. Renouvier, who was educated in the sciences, took up the Comtean positivist alternative and developed it further. He began by defending hypotheses that anticipate laws governing the phenomena, but then eventually adopted a more liberal attitude towards hypotheses that postulate unobservable entities and processes as well. He also came to the realization that, from an epistemological point of view, all of empirical science is hypothetical. Renouvier used the tentative character of scientific knowledge as a premise from which to critique those who would claim scientific status for their social philosophies, and maintained a distinction between normative philosophical and empirical scientific inquiries.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A - Volume 38, Issue 1, March 2007, Pages 132–148
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