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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...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
1986.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; One: Two Puzzles about Science: Reflections on Some Crises in Philosophy and Sociology of Science; Two: The Hierarchical Structure of Scientific Debates; Three: Closing the Evaluative Circle: Resolving Disagreements about Cognitive Values; Four: Dissecting the Holist Picture of Scientific Change; Five: A Reticulational Critique of Realist Axiology and Methodology; Epilogue; References; Index.