Scientific Rationality: The Sociological Turn

Herausgegeben von Brown, J. R.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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¿.

Produktdetails

• The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science Vol.25
• Verlag: Springer / Springer Netherlands
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-90-481-8403-3
• Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1984
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 514g
• ISBN-13: 9789048184033
• ISBN-10: 9048184037
• Artikelnr.: 32094525

Inhaltsangabe

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".