Scientific Rationality: The Sociological Turn

List of contents

Introduction: The Sociological Turn.- The Pseudo-Science of Science?.- The Strengths of the Strong Programme.- The Strong Program: A Dialogue.- Problems of Intelligibility and Paradigm Instances.- The Rational and the Social in the History of Science.- A Plague on Both Your Houses.- Two Historiographical Strategies: Ideas and Social Conditions in the History of Science.- The Role of Arational Factors in Interpretive History: The Case of Kant and ESP.- On the Sociology of Belief, Knowledge, and Science.- Scientific and Other Interests.- The Sociology of Reasons: Or Why "Epistemic Factors" are Really "Social Factors".

Product details

• Assisted by: J. R. Brown (Editor), J.R. Brown (Editor), R Brown (Editor), J R Brown (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.06.2009
• EAN: 9789027718129
• ISBN: 978-90-277-1812-9
• No. of pages: 332
• Weight: 662 g
• Illustrations: VIII, 332 p.
• Series: The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science; The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics