Science and Values: The Aims of Science and Their Role in Scientific Debate

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University of California Press, 1986 M01 16 - 160 páginas
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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Two Puzzles about Science Reflections on Some Crises in Philosophy and Sociology of Science
1
The Hierarchical Structure of Scientific Debates
23
Closing the Evaluative Circle Resolving Disagreements about Cognitive Values
42
Dissecting the Holist Picture of Scientific Change
67
A Reticulational Critique of Realist Axiology and Methodology
103
Epilogue
138
References
141
Index
145
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