Science and Values : The Aims of Science and Their Role in Scientific Debate /

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Laudan constructs a fresh approach to a longtime problem for the philosopher of science: how to explain the simultaneous and widespread presence of both agreement and disagreement in science. Laudan critiques the logical empiricists and the post-positivists as he stresses the need for centrality and...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Laudan, Larry (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [1986]
Colección:Pittsburgh Series in Philosophy and History of Science ; 3
Temas:
Science > Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
cognitive values.
consensus.
covariance fallacy.
decision making.
dissent.
empirical evidence.
empiricism.
ethics.
goal evaluation.
kuhn.
logic.
methodology.
natural sciences.
nonfiction.
philosophy of science.
philosophy.
post positivism.
realist axiology.
research.
reticulated model.
science and technology.
science.
scientific change.
scientific community.
scientific debate.
scientific knowledge.
scientific method.
scientific rationality.
scientific revolutions.
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Sumario:Laudan constructs a fresh approach to a longtime problem for the philosopher of science: how to explain the simultaneous and widespread presence of both agreement and disagreement in science. Laudan critiques the logical empiricists and the post-positivists as he stresses the need for centrality and values and the interdependence of values, methods, and facts as prerequisites to solving the problems of consensus and dissent in science.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (160 p.)
ISBN:9780520908116
9783110635348
Acceso:restricted access

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