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" The Process of Science : "
edited by Nancy J. Nersessian.
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BL
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773140
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b593134
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edited by Nancy J. Nersessian.
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The Process of Science : : Contemporary Philosophical Approaches to Understanding Scientific Practice\ edited by Nancy J. Nersessian.
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Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1987
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Science and philosophy, 3.
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(XIII, 221 pages)
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9400935196
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: 9789400935198
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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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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 relevance for the understanding of real science. Subsequently, an overwhelming amount of criticism has been added. One would be hard-pressed to find anyone who would support the 'received view' today. Yet, in the search for a new analysis of scientific knowledge, this view continues to exert influence over the tenor of much of present-day philosophy of science; in particular, over its problems and its methods of analysis. There has, however, emerged an area within the discipline - called by some the 'new philosophy of science' - that has been engaged in transforming the problems and methods of philosophy of science. While there is far from a consensus of beliefs in this area, most of the following contentions would be affirmed by those working in it: - that science is an open-ended, on-going activity, whose character has changed significantly during its history - that science is not a monolithic enterprise - that good science can lead to false theories - that science has its roots in everyday circumstances, needs, methods, concepts, etc.
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Science -- Philosophy.
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Q175.3E358 1987
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Nancy J Nersessian
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