DOES EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY follow Karl Popper's "logic of scientific discovery", advancing through falsification and refutation?' Or does it progress through puzzle-solving within a paradigm, as Thomas Kuhn characterized the "psychology of research"?2 The case of Lotze's critique of Miller's doctrine of specific sense energies supports the Kuhn thesis. Even though Lotze's logical criteria did...

This paper is concerned with the study of necessary and sufficient optimality conditions for convex–concave generalized fractional disjunctive programming problems for which the decision set is the union of a family of convex sets. The Lagrangian function for such problems is defined and the Kuhn–Tucker Saddle and Stationary points are characterized. In addition, some important theorems related...

In this note, we revisit the classical first order necessary condition in mathematical programming in infinite dimension. The constraint set being defined by C = g−1(K) where g is a smooth map between Banach spaces, and K a closed convex cone, we show that existence of Lagrange-Karush-Kuhn-Tucker multipliers is equivalent to metric subregularity of the multifunction defining the constraint, and...

The Kuhn-Tucker model provides a utility theoretic framework for estimating preferences over commodities for which individuals choose not to consume one or more of the goods. This paper provides an application of the Kuhn-Tucker model to the problem of recreation demand and site selection, modeling the demand for fishing in the Wisconsin Great Lakes region. Disciplines Agricultural and Resource...

In this article, I review John Dewey’s Logic: The Theory of Inquiry in order to show some points coincidence with the work a later author: Thomas S. Kuhn. support view that despite disparities their works sometimes show—and reservations Kuhn himself had about work—there are interesting coincidental help offer common standpoint goes against more traditional views on logic, inquiry and scientific...

After a brief summary of Tauberian conditions for ordinary sequences of numbers, we consider summability of double sequences of real or complex numbers by weighted meanmethods which are not necessarily products of related weighted mean methods in one variable. Our goal is to obtain Tauberian conditions under which convergence of a double sequence follows from its summability, where convergence ...

In a recent paper, Samir Okasha presented an argument that suggests that there is no rational way to choose among scientific theories. This would seriously undermine the view that science is a rational entreprise. In this paper I show how a suitably nuanced view of what scientific rationality requires allows us to avoid Okasha’s conclusion. I go on to argue that making further assumptions about...

The aim of this paper is, on the one hand, to critically investigate Kuhn’s stance on the assessment of the pursuit worthiness of scientific theories, and, on the other hand, to show the actuality of some of Kuhn’s points on this issue, in view of their critical analysis. To this end we show that Kuhn presents certain tools, which may help scientists to overcome communication breakdowns when en...

†Send requests for reprints to the author, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Goodbody Hall 130, Indiana University, 1011 East Third Street, Bloomington, IN 47405–7005; e-mail: [email protected]. *This paper first appeared in Michael Heidelberger and Friedrich Stadler (eds.) History of Philosophy of Science: New Trends and Perspectives (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2002) Kluwer Academic ...