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Science and Relativism: Some Key Controversies in the Philosophy of Science

By Larry Laudan

Book information

Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Year
1990
ISBN
0226469492, 9780226469492
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
11 MB (11052515 bytes)
Series
Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series
Edition
1
Pages
194\196
Scanned
yes
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In recent years, many members of the intellectual community have embraced a radical relativism regarding knowledge in general and scientific knowledge in particular, holding that Kuhn, Quine, and Feyerabend have knocked the traditional picture of scientific knowledge into a cocked hat. Is philosophy of science, or mistaken impressions of it, responsible for the rise of relativism? In this book, Laudan offers a trenchant, wide-ranging critique of cognitive relativism and a thorough introduction to major issues in the philosophy of knowledge.

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