Science and values [[electronic resource] ] : the aims of science and their role in scientific debate / / Larry Laudan
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| Author: |
Laudan Larry
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| Title: |
Science and values [[electronic resource] ] : the aims of science and their role in scientific debate / / Larry Laudan
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| Publisher: | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1984 |
| Physical description: | 1 online resource (165 p.) |
| Dewey: | 501 |
| Topical subject: | Science - Philosophy |
| Uncontrolled subject: | cognitive values |
| consensus | |
| covariance fallacy | |
| decision making | |
| dissent | |
| empirical evidence | |
| empiricism | |
| ethics | |
| goal evaluation | |
| kuhn | |
| logic | |
| methodology | |
| natural sciences | |
| nonfiction | |
| philosophy of science | |
| philosophy | |
| post positivism | |
| realist axiology | |
| research | |
| reticulated model | |
| science and technology | |
| science | |
| scientific change | |
| scientific community | |
| scientific debate | |
| scientific knowledge | |
| scientific method | |
| scientific rationality | |
| scientific revolutions | |
| General notes: | Includes index. |
| Bibliography note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-144) and index. |
| Formatted content note: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- One. Two Puzzles About Science: Reflections On Some Crises In Philosophy And Sociology Of Science -- Two. The Hierarchical Structure Of Scientific Debates -- Three. Closing The Evaluative Circle: Resolving Disagreements About Cognitive Values -- Four. Dissecting The Holist Picture Of Scientific Change -- Five. A Reticulational Critique Of Realist Axiology And Methodology -- Epilogue -- References -- Index |
| Summary, etc: | 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. |
| Preferred title for the work: | Science and values |
| ISBN: | 1-282-38300-0 |
| 9786612383007 | |
| 0-520-90811-2 | |
| Format: | Language material  |
| Bibliographic level | Monograph |
| Language: | English |
| Record Nr.: | 9910778070703321 |
| You will find it: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Check copies here |
Series:
Pittsburgh series in philosophy and history of science ; ; v. 11.