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Norwegian philosophy of science right after the war was empiricistic, scientistic, rather undogmatic and heavily dominated by Arne Næss. The positivistic conception of science has been severely criticized in the last two decades, and the attempts to find viable alternatives have led to a broadening of the perspective, philosophically as well as scientifically. This survey tries to map the main lines of that development. After an account of the rise and fall of Næss' programme for a behaviouristic theory of science, we outline first the development of the internal philosophical critique and then the parallel story on the social science scene.
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Nordenstam, T., Skjervheim, H. Philosophy of science in norway. Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 4, 147–164 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01801070
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