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Record Nr.

UNINA9910659481203321

Autore

Sciortino Luca

Titolo

History of rationalities : ways of thinking from Vico to hacking and beyond / / Luca Sciortino

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2023]

©2023

ISBN

9783031240041

9783031240034

Edizione

[1st ed. 2023.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (350 pages)

Disciplina

016.34951249

Soggetti

Knowledge, Theory of

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: A brief history of the concept of ‘ways of thinking’: introduction and plan of work -- Chapter 2: Notions of the concept of ‘ways of thinking’: from classical historical epistemology to Kuhn -- Chapter 3: Notions of the concept of ‘ways of thinking’: from Hacking to Daston and Galison -- Chapter 4: Taxonomy of the notions of the concept of ‘ways of thinking’ -- Chapter 5: Developing the styles project: towards a ‘theory of styles of reasoning’ -- Chapter 6: Styles of reasoning and relativism -- Chapter 7: The incommensurability of styles of reasoning: the case of the existence of theoretical entities -- Chapter 8: Styles of reasoning, contingency and the evolution of science -- Chapter 9: Epilogue.

Sommario/riassunto

Over time, philosophers and historians of science have introduced different notions of 'ways of thinking'. This book presents, compares, and contrasts these different notions. It focuses primarily on Ian Hacking’s idea of 'style of reasoning' in order to assess and develop it into a more systematic theory of scientific thought, arguing that Hacking’s theory implies epistemic relativism. Luca Sciortino also discusses the implications of Hacking’s ideas for the study of the problem of contingency and inevitability in the development of scientific knowledge.