Philosophy of science and its discontents
by
 
Fuller, Steve, 1959-

Title
Philosophy of science and its discontents

Author
Fuller, Steve, 1959-

ISBN
9780898620207

Personal Author
Fuller, Steve, 1959-

Edition
2nd ed.

Publication Information
New York : Guilford Press, c1993.

Physical Description
xvi, 229 p. ; 23 cm.

Series
The Conduct of science series
 
The Conduct of science series.

Contents
1. My Map of the Field. 1. Overall Trend: From Historicism to Naturalism. 2. The Great Pretender: The Sociology of Scientific Knowledge. 3. The Old Chestnuts: Rationalism and Realism. 4. The Growth Areas: Biology and Cognitive Science. 5. An Itinerary for the Nineties: Does Science Compute? 6. The New Wave: Metascience. 7. Feminism: The Final Frontier? -- 2. Mythical Naturalism and Anemic Normativism: A Look at the Status Quo. 1. The Mythical Status of the Internal History of Science, or Why the Philosophy of Science Is Suffering an Identity Crisis. 2. Dismantling This Myth, Step By Step. 3. Gently Easing Ourselves Out of Internalism: The Case of Disciplines. 4. If Internalism Is Such a Myth, Then Why Don't the Sociologists Have the Upper Hand? 5. Still, the Internalists Do Not Have a Lock on the Concept of Rationality. 6. Nor on the Concept of Reality, Where Things Are a Complete Mess. 7. The End of Realism, or Deconstructing Everything In and Out of Sight.

Subject Term
Science -- Philosophy.
 
Science -- Methodology.
 
Knowledge, Theory of.
 
Sciences -- Philosophie.
 
Sciences -- Méthodologie.
 
Connaissance, Théorie de la.
 
Knowledge, Theory of. (OCoLC)fst00988194
 
Science -- Methodology. (OCoLC)fst01108313
 
Science -- Philosophy. (OCoLC)fst01108336
 
Wetenschapsfilosofie.
 
Kennissociologie.

Electronic Access
Contributor biographical information http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/bios/guilford051/92038514.html
 
Publisher description http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/guilford051/92038514.html
 
Table of contents http://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780898620207.pdf


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