Session of a Conference on the “Logical Analysis of Theories in the Empirical Science”

P. K. Feyerabend

"Critique of Nagel and Carnap on Scientific Explanation"

Duration: 56m 30s

Feyerabend's paper largely corresponds to parts of his review of Ernest Nagel, The Structure of Science (Routledge & Kegan Paul: London 1961), The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 17: 3 (November 1966), 237-249.

Discussion

Duration: 1h 19m 52s

Comments or questions on Feyerabend's paper and Feyerbend's replies 

• 00:00:00 - Roger Buck (Indiana University)

• 00:20:25 - William W. Rozeboom (University of Alberta)

• 00:32:17 - William Craig (University of California, Berkeley)

• 00:40:21 - William W. Rozeboom (University of Alberta)

• 00:42:06 - Norwood R. Hanson (Yale University)

• 00:47:16 - Carl G. Hempel (Princeton University)

• 00:50:09 - Roger Buck (Indiana University)

• 00:53:40 - Peter Achinstein (Johns Hopkins University)

• 01:04:58 - William W. Rozeboom (University of Alberta)

• 01:07:04 - Roger Buck (Indiana University)

• 01:12:40 - Ian G. Barbour (Carleton College)

• 01:15:18 - William Craig (University of California, Berkeley)

• 01:16:04 - Norwood R. Hanson (Yale University)

An adapted transcription of the discussion was published as part of the section "Discussion at the Conference on Correspondence Rules" in Analysis of Theories and Methods of Physics and Psychology, Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 4, M. Radner and S. Winokur (eds), University of Minnesota Press: Minneapolis 1970, pp. 232-241.