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Science and Values : The Aims of Science and Their Role in Scientific Debate.
Title:
Science and Values : The Aims of Science and Their Role in Scientific Debate.
Author:
Laudan, Larry.
ISBN:
9780520908116
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (165 pages)
Series:
Pittsburgh Series in Philosophy and History of Science ; v.3

Pittsburgh Series in Philosophy and History of Science
Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- One: Two Puzzles about Science: Reflections on Some Crises in Philosophy and Sociology of Science -- The Consensual View and the Puzzle of Agreement -- The "New Wave" Preoccupation with Dissensus -- Two: The Hierarchical Structure of Scientific Debates -- Factual Consensus Formation -- Methodological Consensus Formation -- Three: Closing the Evaluative Circle: Resolving Disagreements about Cognitive Values -- The Covariance Fallacy -- The Reticulated Model and the Mechanics of Goal Evaluation -- The Reticulated Model of Scientific Rationality -- Four: Dissecting the Holist Picture of Scientific Change -- Kuhn on the Units of Scientific Change -- Kuhn's Critique of Methodology -- Five: A Reticulational Critique of Realist Axiology and Methodology -- Epilogue -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Abstract:
Laudan constructs a fresh approach to a longtime problem for the philosopher of science: how to explain the simultaneous and widespread presence of both agreement and disagreement in science. Laudan critiques the logical empiricists and the post-positivists as he stresses the need for centrality and values and the interdependence of values, methods, and facts as prerequisites to solving the problems of consensus and dissent in science.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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