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Philosophies Of Science: Mach Duhem Bachelard, Babette Babich
Philosophies Of Science: Mach Duhem Bachelard, Babette Babich
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approaches reflect the philosophical reflections on science expressed from the tradition of continental thought. In this context, the philosophical reflections on science to be found in Mach, Duhem and Bachelard may be mined for what should prove to be a productive
historical foundation between these two traditions addressed to a common focus.
Mach, Duhem and Bachelard among other thinkers have argued that science itself is more critical, indeed more inherently ‘hermeneutic’, than philosophy. But this point is problematic, and not only because of its counter-intuitive content -- whereby science ends up with the virtue of being more hermeneutic than hermeneutics …