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Scientific controversies : philosophical and historical perspectives /

Social constructionists claim that scientific debates are influenced by non-evidential factors such as the rhetoric and professional clout of the participants. These essays undermine an extreme social constructionist perspective and indicate the need for a more realistic scientific rationality.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Machamer, Peter K., Pera, Marcello, 1943-, Baltas, Aristeidēs
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Patterns of scientific controversies / Philip Kitcher
  • Classifying scientific controversies / Aristedes Baltas
  • Rhetoric and scientific controversies / Marcello Pera
  • On the cognitive analysis of scientific controversies / Richard E. Grandy
  • The concept of the individual and the idea(l) of method in seventeenth-century natural philosophy / Peter Machamer
  • Dialectics, experiments, and mathematics in Galileo / William A. Wallace
  • A rational controversy over compounding forces / Gideon Freudenthal
  • The structure of a scientific controversy: Hooke versus Newton about colors / Maurizio Mamiani
  • Scientific dialectics in action: the case of Joseph Priestley / Pierluigi Barrotta
  • Controversies and the becoming of physical chemistry / Kostas Gavroglu
  • Anthropology: art of science? a controversy about the evidence for cannibalism / Merrilee H. Salmon
  • Multiple personalities, internal controversies and invisible marvels / Ian Hacking
  • The theory of punctuated equilibria: taking apart a scientific controversy / Michael Ruse
  • Quasars, causality, and geometry: a scientific controversy that should have happened but didn't / Wesley C. Salmon.