Science and Values

The Aims of Science and Their Role in Scientific Debate

AvLarry Laudan

Häftad, Engelska, 1986

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Beskrivning

In this title, 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1986-01-16
Mått:227 x 152 x 10 mm
Vikt:227 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Pittsburgh Series in Philosophy and History of Science
Antal sidor:160
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520057432

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Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgments Preface One Two Puzzles about Science: Reflections on Some Crises in Philosophy and Sociology of Science The Consensual View and the Puzzle of Agreement The "New Wave" Preoccupation with Dissensus Two The Hierarchical Structure of Scientific Debates Factual Consensus Formation Methodological Consensus Formation Three Closing the Evaluative Circle: Resolving Disagreements about Cognitive Values The Covariance Fallacy The Reticulated Model and the Mechanics of Goal Evaluation The Reticulated Model of Scientific Rationality Four Dissecting the Holist Picture of Scientific Change Kuhn on the Units of Scientific ChangeKuhn's Critique of MethodologyFive A Reticulational Critique of Realist Axiologyand MethodologyEpilogueReferencesIndex