Chapter 9: Holism and the Empirical Claim of Theory-Nets

Chapters in this book

1. I-VI I
2. Foreword VII
3. Table of Contents XI
4. Chapter 1: Structuralism: The Basic Ideas 1
5. Chapter 2: Structuralism As Developed Within the Model-Theoretical Approach in the Philosophy of Science 15
6. Chapter 3: Scientific Explanation 23
7. Chapter 4: Structuralism and the Interrogative Model of Inquiry 45
8. Chapter 5: Pragmatic and Diachronic Aspects of Structuralism 75
9. Chapter 6: Truth Approximation by the Hypothetico-Deductive Method 83
10. Chapter 7: Probability, Confirmation and Testing from a Structuralist Perspective 115
11. Chapter 8: Theoretical Terms: Recent Developments 139
12. Chapter 9: Holism and the Empirical Claim of Theory-Nets 167
13. Chapter 10: Symmetry and Invariance 191
14. Chapter 11: Bridges, Constraints, and Links 219
15. Chapter 12: A Rigorous Set Theoretical Foundation of the Structuralist Approach 233
16. Chapter 13: Categorial Structuralism 265
17. Name Index 287
18. Subject Index 291
19. 296 296