Scientific Controversies : Philosophical and Historical Perspectives


Peter. Machamer
Bok Engelsk 2000 · Electronic books.
Utgitt
New York : : Oxford University Press, , 2000.
Omfang
1 online resource (289 p.)
Opplysninger
Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Contributors; Scientific Controversies: An Introduction; 1. Patterns of Scientific Controversies; 2. Classifying Scientific Controversies; 3. Rhetoric and Scientific Controversies; 4. On the Cognitive Analysis of Scientific Controversies; 5. The Concept of the Individual and the Idea(l) of Method in seventeenth-Century Natural Philosophy; 6. Dialectics, Experiments, and Mathematics in Galileo; 7. A Rational Controversy over Compounding Forces; 8. The Structure of a Scientific Controversy: Hooke versus Newton about Colors. - 9. Scientific Dialectics in Action: the Case of Joseph Priestley10. Controversies and the Becoming of Physical Chemistry; 11. Anthropology: Art of Science? A Controversy about the Evidence for Cannibalism; 12. Multiple Personalities, Internal Controversies, and Invisible Marvels; 13. The Theory of Punctuated Equilibria: Taking Apart a Scientific Controversy; 14. Quasars, Causality, and Geometry: A Scientific Controversy that Should Have Happened but Didn't; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z. - Social constructionists claim that scientific debates are influenced by non-evidential factors such as the rhetoric and professional clout of the participants. These essays undermine an extreme social constructionist perspective and indicate the need for a more realistic scientific rationality.
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Dewey
501
ISBN
0195119878

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