The Logic of Discovery: An Analysis of Three Approaches

@inproceedings{Curd1980TheLO,
  title={The Logic of Discovery: An Analysis of Three Approaches},
  author={Martin V. Curd},
  year={1980},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:170558707}
}
Is there anything about the discovery of scientific theories that is of legitimate concern to the philosopher of science? The answer to this question is still controversial. Popper (1959), Hempel (1966), and Braithwaite (1955), for example, have categorically denied that anything like a logic of discovery is possible. On the other hand, the notion has been vigorously defended by C. S. Peirce and, more recently, by Hanson (1961), Achinstein (1970), Simon (1973), Shaffner (1974) and others. 
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