The distinction between the contexts of discovery and justification has left a turbulent wake in the philosophy of science. This book recognizes the need to re-open the debate about the nature, development, and significance of the context distinction, about its merits and flaws. The discussion clears the ground for the productive and fruitful integration of these new developments into philosophy of science.

InhaltsangabeJutta Schickore & Friedrich Steinle - Introduction: Revisiting the Context Distinction Part I The Contexts of the Distinction Don Howard -Lost Wanderers in the Forest of Knowledge: Some Thoughts on the Discovery-Justification Distinction Gregor Schiemann - Inductive Justification and Discovery. On Hans Reichenbach's Foundation of the Autonomy of the Philosophy of Science Alan Richardson - Freedom in a Scientific Society: Reading the Context of Reichenbach's Contexts Part II Forerunners? Jutta Schickore - A Forerunner? - Perhaps, but not to the Context Distinction. William Whewell's Germano-Cantabrigian History of the Fundamental Ideas Lothar Schäfer - Autonomy versus Development: Duhem on Progress in Science Volker Peckhaus - Psychologism and the Distinction between Discovery and Justification Part III Revisions and Applications Paul Hoyningen-Huene - Context of Discovery versus Context of Justification and Thomas Kuhn Thomas Sturm & Gerd Gigerenzer - How Can We Use the Distinction between Discovery and Justification? On Weaknesses of the Strong Programme in Sociology of Science Thomas Nickles - Heuristic Appraisal: Context of Discovery or Justification? Friedrich Steinle - Experiment, Concept Formation and the Limits of Justification: 'Discovering' the Two Electricities Thomas Potthast - Contexts of Justifying and Discovering the Nature of Ecosystems: From Concepts to Objects and vice-versa Theodore Arabatzis - On the Inextricability of the Context of Discovery and the Context of Justification