Engaging Science : : How to Understand Its Practices Philosophically /

Engaging Science : : How to Understand Its Practices Philosophically / / Joseph Rouse.

Summarizing this century's major debates over realism and the rationality of scientific knowledge, Joseph Rouse believes that these disputes oversimplify the political and cultural significance of the sciences. He provides an alternative understanding of science that focuses on practices rather...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Rouse, Joseph,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©1996
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I RETHINKING THE TRADITIONS: POSITIVISM, SCIENTIFIC REALISM, HISTORICAL RATIONALISM, AND SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIVISM
  • 1. Philosophy of Science and the Persistent Narratives of Modernity
  • 2. The Politics of Postmodern Philosophy of Science
  • 3. Arguing for the Natural Ontological Attitude
  • 4. Should Philosophy of Science Be Postpositivist
  • Part II RECONSTRUCTING PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE: PRACTICES AND THE DYNAMICS OF KNOWING
  • 5. The Significance of Scientific Practices
  • 6. Narrative Reconstruction, Epistemic Significance, and the Temporality of Scientific Practices
  • 7. The Dynamics of Scientific Knowing: Understanding Science without Reifying Knowledge
  • 8. Against Representation: Davidsonian Semantics and Cultural Studies of Science
  • 9. What Are Cultural Studies of Science?
  • References
  • Index

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