Patterns of theory change in physics

0496805 - FLÚ 2019 RIV ES eng C - Conference Paper (international conference)
Kvasz, Ladislav
Patterns of theory change in physics.
Actas del IX Congreso de la Sociedad de Lógica, Metodología y Filosofía de la Ciencia en España. Madrid: UNED, 2018 - (Saborido, C.; Oms, S.; de Prado, J.), s. 341-347. ISBN 978-84-09-06054-2.
[Congreso de la Sociedad de Lógica, Metodología y Filosofía de la Ciencia en España /9./. Madrid (ES), 13.10.2018-16.10.2018]
Grant - others:AV ČR(CZ) AP1602
Program: Akademická prémie - Praemium Academiae
Institutional support: RVO:67985955
Keywords : Kuhn * scientific revolution * conceptual change * sociology of science
OECD category: Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
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The aim of this paper is to discriminate four levels at which theory change occurs: the level of aims of scientific research, the level of instrumental practice, by means of which those aims are achieved, the level of conceptual frameworks used to interpret the outcomes of the instrumental practice, and finally the level of facts stabilized on the basis of the particular conceptual framework. These levels interact in many different ways, but the changes occurring on these levels vary in their character. Therefore I propose to discriminate four kinds of theory change, for each kind I will discuss few examples from the history of physics, offer their epistemological analysis, and suggest for each of them a particular pattern of theory change.
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