In Systematicity, Paul Hoyningen-Huene answers the question What is science? by proposing that scientific knowledge is primarily distinguished from other forms of knowledge, especially from everyday knowledge, by being more systematic.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface
1 Introduction
1.1 Historical Remarks
1.2 The Question "What Is Science?" in Focus
2 The Main Thesis
2.1 Science and Systematicity
A) A Little History
B) Preliminary Remarks
2.2 The Concept of Systematicity
2.3 The Structure of the Argument
3 The Systematicity of Science Unfolded
3.1 Descriptions
A) Some Preliminaries
B) Axiomatization
C) Classification, Taxonomy, and Nomenclature
D) Periodization
E) Quantification
F) Empirical Generalizations
G) Historical Descriptions
3.2 Explanations
A) Some Preliminaries
B) Explanations Using Empirical Generalizations
C) Explanations Using Theories
D) Explanations of Human Actions
E) Reductive Explanations
F) Historical Explanations
G) Explanation and Understanding in the Humanities in General
H) Explanations in the Study of Literature
3.3 Predictions
A) Some Preliminaries
B) Predictions Based on Empirical Regularities of the Data in Question
C) Predictions Based on Correlations with Other Data Sets
D) Predictions Based on (Fundamental) Theories or Laws
E) Predictions Based on Models
F) Predictions Based on Delphi Methods
3.4 The Defense of Knowledge Claims
A) Some Preliminaries
B) Non-Evidential Considerations
C) Empirical Generalizations, Models, and Theories
D) Causal Influence
E) The Verum Factum Principle
F) The Role of Mathematics in the Sciences
G) Historical Sciences
3.5 Critical Discourse
A) Some Preliminaries
B) Norms and Institutions
C) Practices in Science Fostering Critical Discourse
3.6. Epistemic Connectedness
A) Preliminaries: The Problem
B) Failing Answers
C) The Concept of Epistemic Connectedness
D) Revisiting the Examples
3.7 The Ideal of Completeness
A) Some Preliminaries
B) Examples
3.8 The Generation of New Knowledge
A) Some Preliminaries
B) Data Collection
C) The Exploitation of Knowledge from Other Domains
D) The Generation of New Knowledge as an Autocatalytic Process
Paul Hoyningen-Huene is a philosopher of science with a PhD in theoretical physics teaching at the Institute of Philosophy at the Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany. He is best known for his book Reconstructing Scientific Revolutions: Thomas S. Kuhn's Philosophy of Science (1993).
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