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Scientific Rationality: The Sociological Turn

By James Robert Brown (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Year
1984
ISBN
978-90-481-8403-3, 978-94-015-7688-8
DOI
10.1007/978-94-015-7688-8
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
12 MB (12429927 bytes)
Series
The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science 25
Edition
1
Pages
332\332
Time added
2014-01-18 08:00:00
Philosophy of Science

Description

Introduction: The Sociological Turn.- The Pseudo-Science of Science?.- The Strengths of the Strong Programme.- The Strong Program: A Dialogue.- Problems of Intelligibility and Paradigm Instances.- The Rational and the Social in the History of Science.- A Plague on Both Your Houses.- Two Historiographical Strategies: Ideas and Social Conditions in the History of Science.- The Role of Arational Factors in Interpretive History: The Case of Kant and ESP.- On the Sociology of Belief, Knowledge, and Science.- Scientific and Other Interests.- The Sociology of Reasons: Or Why “Epistemic Factors” are Really “Social Factors”.

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