Chris Haufe

How Knowledge Grows

The Evolutionary Development of Scientific Practice

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"An argument that science is indeed 'socially constructed' but in a way that exposes it to a Darwinian version of variability and selection which ensures its success"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 152mm x 230mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 554g
• ISBN-13: 9780262544450
• ISBN-10: 0262544458
• Artikelnr.: 64642749

Autorenporträt

Chris Haufe

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
I The Evolution of Scientific Knowledge 7
1 Again with the Science and the Evolution? 11
2 The Persistence of Practice 45
3 Isolation of the Evolving Population 71
4 Directionality and the Refinement of Scientific Practice 105
5 Branching and the Growth of Scientific Knowledge 141
6 The Recovery of Scientific Knowledge 177
II The Emergence of a Discipline 207
7 The Philosophical Foundations of Disciplinary Autonomy 213
8 Attempted Paleontology 227
9 Wonderful Death 271
Notes 309
References 315
Index 329