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edited by Peter Machamer, Marcello Pera, and Aristedes BaltasPublication Details
BookOxford University Press2000Availability
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This volume of previously unpublished essays by well-known philosophers of science presents historical studies and philosophical analyses that undermine the plausibility of an extreme social constructionist perspective while also indicating the need for a richer and more realistic account of scientific rationality. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
Contents
- Patterns of scientific controversies / Philip Kitcher
- Classifying scientific controversies / Aristedes Baltas
- Rhetoric and scientific controversies / Marcello Pera
- On the cognitive analysis of scientific controversies / Richard E. Grandy
- The concept of the individual and the idea(l) of method in seventeenth-century natural philosophy / Peter Machamer
- Dialectics, experiments, and mathematics in Galileo / William A. Wallace
- A rational controversy over compounding forces / Gideon Freudenthal
- The structure of a scientific controversy: Hooke versus Newton about colors / Maurizio Mamiani
- Scientific dialectics in action: the case of Joseph Priestley / Pierluigi Barrotta
- Controversies and the becoming of physical chemistry / Kostas Gavroglu
- Anthropology: art of science? a controversy about the evidence for cannibalism / Merrilee H. Salmon
- Multiple personalities, internal controversies and invisible marvels / Ian Hacking
- The theory of punctuated equilibria: taking apart a scientific controversy / Michael Ruse
- Quasars, causality, and geometry: a scientific controversy that should have happened but didn’t / Wesley C. Salmon
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- 0195119878
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