• DOI:10.1590/S0104-59702001000400008
Corpus ID: 34675936

History and Philosophy of Science: a Phylogenetic approach

@article{Lennox2001HistoryAP,
  title={History and Philosophy of Science: a Phylogenetic approach},
  author={J. Lennox},
  journal={Historia Ciencias Saude-manguinhos},
  year={2001},
  volume={8},
  pages={655-669}
}

• J. Lennox
• Published 2001
• Sociology
• Historia Ciencias Saude-manguinhos

In the aftermath of Thomas Kuhn's The structure of scientific revolutions, there was a great deal of discussion about the relationship between the History of Science and the Philosophy of Science. A wider issue was at stake in these discussions: 'normativism' versus 'naturalism' in Epistemology. If the History of Science, at best, gives us reliable information about what actually occurred historically, how can it inform debates about such things as confirmation or explanation in Philosophy of… Expand

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