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Science and Values : the Aims of Science and Their Role in Scientific Debate.
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
1986.
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| Colección: | Pittsburgh series in philosophy and history of science ;
v. 11. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (165 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780520908116 0520908112 |