Science and Its History - A Reassessment of the Historiography of Science

Professor Joseph Agassi has published his Towards an Historiography of Science in 1963. It received many reviews by notable academics, including Maurice Finocchiaro, Charles Gillispie, Thomas S. Kuhn, Geroge Mora, Nicholas Rescher, and L. Pearce Williams. It is still in use in many courses in the philosophy and history of science. Here it appears in a revised and updated version with responses to these reviews and with many additional chapters, some already classic, others new. They are all paradigms of the author's innovative way of writing fresh and engaging chapters in the history of the natural sciences.

List of contents

I. Chroniclers in the Courts of Science: Introductions to the New Edition. Introductory Note: On studies and their motivations. First preliminary essay: On the desirable standard of publication. Second Preliminary Essay. Third preliminary essay: On the desirable standards of popular science. Fourth preliminary essay: On the merit of flogging dead horses. Concluding preliminary essay: On the sifting of the grain from the chaff. II The original essay revised: Introductory Note.

Summary

Professor Joseph Agassi has published his Towards an Historiography of Science in 1963. It received many reviews by notable academics, including Maurice Finocchiaro, Charles Gillispie, Thomas S. Kuhn, Geroge Mora, Nicholas Rescher, and L. Pearce Williams. It is still in use in many courses in the philosophy and history of science. Here it appears in a revised and updated version with responses to these reviews and with many additional chapters, some already classic, others new. They are all paradigms of the author’s innovative way of writing fresh and engaging chapters in the history of the natural sciences.

Product details

• Authors: Joseph Agassi
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.10.2010
• EAN: 9789048174140
• ISBN: 978-90-481-7414-0
• No. of pages: 514
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 29 mm x 235 mm
• Weight: 812 g
• Illustrations: XXII, 514 p.
• Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science; Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science; Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science; Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); C, History, Philosophy of Science, Historiography, History of Science, Physics, Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary, Humanities and Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary studies, Philosophical Foundations of Physics and Astronomy, History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics, Philosophy and science, History, general