Philosophy of Science

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