The Process of Science Contemporary Philosophical Approaches to Understanding Scientific Practice

The Process of Science Contemporary Philosophical Approaches to Understanding Scientific Practice / edited by N.J. Nersessian.

For some time now the philosophy of science has been undergoing a major transfor­ mation. It began when the 'received view' of scientific knowledge -that developed by logical positivists and their intellectual descendants - was challenged as bearing little resemblance to and having little...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Nersessian, N.J (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1987.
Edition:1st ed. 1987.
Series:Science and Philosophy, 3
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Subjects:
Philosophy and science.
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Table of Contents:
  • Method in the philosophy of science and epistemology: How to inquire about inquiry and knowledge
  • ’Twixt method and madness
  • Historical realism and contextual objectivity: A developing perspective in the philosophy of science
  • Research problems and the understanding of science
  • Twenty years after
  • The semantic approach to scientific theories
  • The garden in the machine: Gender relations, the processes of science, and feminist epistemological strategies
  • The cognitive study of science
  • A cognitive — historical approach to meaning in scientific theories
  • Naturalizing observation
  • Realist methodology in genetics
  • Parsimony and the units of selection.

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