Problems in Historical Epistemology: Synthese Library, cartea 191

1 / Epistemological Cognition as Historical Cognition.- 1.1. Factographical Versus Theoretical Historicism.- 1.2. Framework Regularities.- 1.3. Assumptions of Historical Epistemology.- 1.4. The Relation Born by General Statements of Historical Epistemology on Methodological Norms and Directives.- Notes.- 2 / The Relation of Correspondence.- 2.1. Literal Reference.- 2.2. The Characteristics of Essentially Corrective (Strict) Correspondence.- 2.3. Remarks of Traditional Understandings of Correspondence.- 2.4. An Example of Essentially Corrective Correspondence, A Debate with the Views of P. K. Feyerabend.- Notes.- 3 / The Opposition of Theory and Experience.- 3.1. ‘Dogma of Empiricism’.- 3.2. Performed Action as the Essentially Corrected Correspondence Rendering of Undertaken Action.- 3.3 Two Kinds of Opposition of Theory and Experience: The Relative and the Absolute.- Notes.- 4 / The Duhem-Quine Thesis.- 4.1. The Comprehensive Instrumentalism of W. V. Quine.- 4.2. The Comprehensive Instrumentalism of W. V Quine from the Viewpoint of Historical Epistemology.- Notes.- 5 / Althusser’s Instrumentalism.- 5.1. A Marxist Variant of Theoretical Historicism Methodology.- 5.2. Althusser’s Conception of Historical Materialism.- 5.3. ‘Anti-Empiricism’ as a Consequence of the ‘Methodologically’ Instrumentalist Interpretation of Historical Materialism.- Notes.