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4 - Foresight in Scientific Method

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 October 2016

By
Hasok Chang
Edited by
Lawrence W. Sherman  and
David Allan Feller
Lawrence W. Sherman
Affiliation:
Darwin College, Cambridge
David Allan Feller
Affiliation:
Darwin College, Cambridge
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Foresight , pp. 82 - 100
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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Michelson, Albert and Morley, Edward (1887) ‘On the Relative Motion of the Earth and the Luminiferous Ether’, American Journal of Science 34 (203): 333–45Google Scholar
Mill, John Stuart (1882) A System of Logic. New York: Harper & Bros.Google Scholar
Musgrave, Alan (1974) ‘Logical versus Historical Theories of Confirmation’, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 25, 1–23CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Popper, Karl R. Popper (1972) Conjectures and Refutations. 4th ed. (rev.). London: Routledge and Kegan PaulGoogle Scholar
Priestley, Joseph (1790) Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air, and Other Branches of Natural Philosophy, Connected with the Subject. 2nd ed., 3 vols. Birmingham: Thomas PearsonGoogle Scholar
Psillos, Stathis (1999) Scientific Realism. London: RoutledgeGoogle Scholar
Scerri, Eric (2006) The Periodic Table. New York: Oxford University PressGoogle Scholar
Snyder, Laura J. Snyder (1996) ‘Is Evidence Historical?’, in Curd, Martin and Cover, J. A., eds., Philosophy of Science. New York: W.W. NortonGoogle Scholar
Stanford, P. Kyle (2006) Exceeding Our Grasp: Science, History, and the Problem of Unconceived Alternatives. New York: Oxford University PressCrossRefGoogle Scholar
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