Scientific Controversies
Philosophical and Historical Perspectives
1st Edition
Published on 20. April 2000
289 pages
978-0-19-535316-7 (ISBN)
Description
Traditionally it has been thought that scientific controversies can always be resolved on the basis of empirical data. Recently, however, social constructionists have claimed that the outcome of scientific debates is strongly influenced by non-evidential factors such as the rhetorical prowess and professional clout of the participants. This volume of previously unpublished essays by well-known philosophers of science presents historical studies and philosophical analyses that undermine the plausibility of an extreme social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.
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Peter Machamer | Marcello Pera | Aristides Baltas
Scientific Controversies
Philosophical and Historical Perspectives
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Contributors
- Scientific Controversies: An Introduction
- Part I: The Structure of Scientific Controversies
- 1. Patterns of Scientific Controversies
- 2. Classifying Scientific Controversies
- 3. Rhetoric and Scientific Controversies
- 4. On the Cognitive Analysis of Scientific Controversies
- Part II: Historical and Contemporary Reflections on Controversies
- 5. The Concept of the Individual and the Idea(l) of Method in seventeenth-Century Natural Philosophy
- 6. Dialectics, Experiments, and Mathematics in Galileo
- 7. A Rational Controversy over Compounding Forces
- 8. The Structure of a Scientific Controversy: Hooke versus Newton about Colors
- 9. Scientific Dialectics in Action: the Case of Joseph Priestley
- 10. Controversies and the Becoming of Physical Chemistry
- 11. Anthropology: Art of Science? A Controversy about the Evidence for Cannibalism
- 12. Multiple Personalities, Internal Controversies, and Invisible Marvels
- 13. The Theory of Punctuated Equilibria: Taking Apart a Scientific Controversy
- 14. Quasars, Causality, and Geometry: A Scientific Controversy that Should Have Happened but Didn't
- Index
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