AUSTRALASIAN STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE VOLUME 15 General Editor: R. W. HOME, University of Melbourne
Some of the papers in this volume were initially given at a combined one-day meeting of the Australasian Association for Philosophy and the Australasian Association for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science held in Auckland in July 1997 as part of ‘Phil fest 97’. The organisers thought it would be appropriate to commemorate the three well known philosophers of science who had made a major contribution to theories of scientific method and whose recent departure from the world scene in effect marked the end of an era in the subject. The theme title, which is the first half of the title of this book, reflected the influence that Karl Popper (1902-94), Thomas Kuhn (1922-96) and Paul Feyerabend (1924-94) have had on our conception of scientific method. Also both Popper and Feyerabend had had personal associations with New Zealand owing to the time they had spent in the country as teachers of philosophy. The papers presented at the joint meeting appear in a revised form in this book. Since other papers at the conference were promised elsewhere we also contacted other philosophers who were willing to make a contribution to more recent developments in theories of method in line with the announced conference theme.