School of Historical and Philosophical Studies - Theses

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    The logic of Darwinism
    Pargetter, Robert John ( 1970)
    Whether or not we accept all the details of Thomas Kuhn's thesis concerning the nature of scientific revolutions, it would seem that Kuhn has at least shown that the development of a science in periods of normal science differs from the development of a science in periods of crisis science. Usually a crisis in a particular science is settled by the introduction and general acceptance of a new theory, or initially by the acceptance of some dramatic modification of the existing theory.
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    Logical principles of scientific inference
    Clendinnen, Frederick John ( 1972)
    In this essay my aim is to explicate and vindicate the method of ampliative inference which constitutes the basis of scientific and, indeed, of all critical and disciplined reasoning.