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From: [e-mail] (Gary Merrill)
Subject: Re: Natural Kinds (was re: Are all crows black?)
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Robert Vienneau) writes:

|> I think one should also have some idea of what criteria 20th century
|> philosophers have put forward to demarcate science from non-science. I'd
|> like to suggest that if one is going to sound like one knows what one is
|> talking about, one should have at least a passing acquaintance with the
|> ideas of Karl Popper, Thomas Kuhn, Imre Lakatos, and Paul Feyerabend.

I'd like to suggest that this would provide a pretty narrow perspective
on 20th century philosophy of science since it provides a view from
only one particular "school" or "tradition".  Indeed, it is neither the
"received view" nor representative of the bulk of work in the philosophy
of science over (say) the last 20 years.
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