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What is scientific progress?
Noûs 41 (1):64–89 (2007)
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I argue that scientific progress is precisely the accumulation of scientific knowledge.Author's Profile
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.Thomas S. Kuhn - 1962 - Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. Edited by Ian Hacking.
Progress and its Problems: Toward a Theory of Scientific Growth.Larry Laudan - 1977 - University of California Press.
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