The preeminence of science in Western culture is manifest. Any student of modern society
must acknowledge the importance of understanding how science conducts its business of …

THE TITLE of this paper is meant to cover two aspects of my attitude towards scientific
theories. In a vaguely popular sense, being realistic is a matter of being reconciled to the …

Os autores deste ensaio entendem que é preciso testar de forma mais completa as
afirmações empíricas das recentes teorias da mudança científica. Tendo em vista facilitar tal …

In this paper I argue that the case of Einstein׳ s special relativity vs. Hendrik Lorentz׳ s ether
theory can be decided in terms of empirical evidence, in spite of the predictive equivalence …

It is contended that one of the promising directions for brooding over the problem of
incommensurability of paradigms, coined by T. Kuhn and P. Feyerabend, may be associated …

It is demonstrated that Maxwellian electrodynamics was created as a result of the old pre-
Maxwellian programmes's reconciliation: the electrodynamics of Ampère–Weber, the wave …

This is a partly provocative essay edited as a humanitarian study in philosophy of science
and social philosophy. The starting point is Isaac Asimov's famous sci-fi novella …

Как происходит научная революция? Когда ученые осознают, что старая
фундаментальная теория или базисная парадигма себя исчерпала и нуждается в …

Концепция генезиса и структуры научных революций, сформировавшаяся в результате
обобщения опыта эйнштейновской революции и изложенная в предыдущих …

В статье с позиций теоретической социологии подвергнуты критическому анализу
некоторые ставшие к настоящему времени классическими т. н.«исторические» теории …