Scientific Rationality: The Sociological Turn
Published on 28. October 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
VIII, 332 pages
978-90-481-8403-3 (ISBN)
Description
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".
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Series
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1984
Language
English
Place of publication
Dordrecht
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
VIII, 332 p.
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
499 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-481-8403-3 (9789048184033)
DOI
10.1007/978-94-015-7688-8
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08/1984
Kluwer Academic Publishers
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Content
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".