Macromolecules, dogmatism, and scientific change: The prehistory of polymer chemistry as testing ground for philosophy of science

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 19 (4):489-515 (1988)
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Two Dogmas of Empiricism.Willard V. O. Quine - 1951 - Philosophical Review 60 (1):20–43.
History of Science and Its Rational Reconstructions.Imre Lakatos - 1970 - PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1970:91-136.
The significance of the macromolecules in the historiography of molecular biology.Robert C. Olby - 1979 - History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 1 (2):185 - 198.

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