ABSTRACT
In the last chapter, the erosion of a unified and defensible logical empiricist approach to the philosophy of science was detailed. Within certain of the traditional positivist categories of investigation, alternative models (e.g. of the structure of theories and the nature of scientific explanation) were proposed. However, it was also hinted that certain philosophers were simultaneously advancing alternative and radically new approaches to the philosophy of science, and it is some of those new developments that are the focus of investigation of this chapter.
