Philosophy of Science
Across
- 1. Architecture movement ideologically connected with the logical positivists
- 4. All bachelors are bald
- 9. A specific achievement that is a source of inspiration and example, for Kuhn
- 12. What normal scientists solve, for Kuhn
- 17. Popper’s theory of “confirmation”
- 19. Arguments that are NOT deductively valid but still provide us with reasons for believing the conclusion
- 21. “A Marxist could not open a newspaper without finding on every page confirming evidence for his interpretation of history”
- 25. There will always be a number of competing theories that explain the same data
- 26. “The unit of empirical significance is the whole of science”
- 27. Symmetrical with prediction, for Hempel
- 29. An inductive argument that is bad for the realist
- 30. Knowledge that is not explicitly stated or codified, for Bloor
- 31. “The meaning of a sentence consists in its method of ________.”
- 34. The logical form of falsifiability
- 35. Hegel’s writing lacks it, says a logical positivist
- 36. Particularly worrying scientific puzzle, for Kuhn
Down
- 2. All bachelors are unmarried
- 3. The problem of defining what makes science different non-science
- 5. Famous rationalist and metaphysician
- 6. The colour of Goodman’s emeralds
- 7. You cannot understand a particular thing without looking at its place in a larger whole
- 8. Not comparable by use of a common measure or standard
- 10. Hume thought that all inductive arguments were _________.
- 11. Murdered at the University of Vienna in 1936
- 13. One interpretation of probability
- 14. Famous inductive skeptic
- 15. An unobservable entity, for an anti-realist
- 16. Contextual values compromise scientific objectivity
- 18. The _________ of Scientific Revolutions
- 20. Famous logical positivist
- 22. Longino’s kind of empiricism
- 23. The premises that do the explaining, for Hempel
- 24. Values that are fundamental to science
- 28. Thagard wrote about it
- 32. “History, if viewed as a repository for more than anecdote or chronology, could produce a decisive transformation in the image of science”
- 33. The aim of science is to provide a true description of the world