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During the so-called ‘historical turn’ in the philosophy of science, philosophers and historians boldly argued for general patterns throughout the history o

During the so-called 'historical turn' in the philosophy of science, philosophers and historians boldly argued for general patterns throughout the history of sc

This book systematically creates a general descriptive theory of scientific change that explains the mechanics of changes in both scientific theories and the me

"A book that shakes philosophy of science to its roots. Laudan both destroys and creates. With detailed, scathing criticisms, he attacks the 'pregnant confusion

In this book I discuss the justification of scientific change and argue that it rests on different sorts of invariance. Against this background I con sider noti