Frederick Suppe

The structure of scientific theory, theory interpretation, and criticism book author is a professor emeritus in philosophy at the University of Maryland. Suppe was born in 1940 he has a great interest in the philosophy of science and this book is one of his prominent works. The author gathers various documents where they were an outcome of the 1969 Illinois symposium to stand on the chaos (as he says) in the direction of the scientific theories and to select an alternative productive intellectual direction to follow. The contributors are from different philosophic backgrounds and are figures in the scientific research discipline. The book covers several scientific theories debates like the Received view, perception-communication, theory paradigms, theory domains, Instrumentalism, and realism.

To start with, within the book covers the reader finds different definitions for theory. For example, a theory is considered to be cognitive significance if it is verifiable and can be tested to be true.

Karl R. Popper says theories are nets cast to catch what we call “the world” to rationalize, to explain, and to master it. We Endeavour to make the mesh even finer and finer.

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