Philosophy Of Science And Its Discontents - Hardcover
The author, whose intellectual/prose style is vigorous and good-naturedly contentious (he is an assistant professor of "science studies" at VPI, and editor of Social epistemology; a journal of knowledge, culture and policy ), argues that the recently dominant "internalist" approach to the history and philosophy of science promotes what is essentially a myth, and that understanding the development and structure of science is properly the business of sociology and psychology. The remarkable table of contents provides what amounts to an abstract of his argument. Provocative. One gains, however, the impression that the author's direct and personal experience of science is distinctly limited, that he has possibly never met a living/working scientist, and that the enduring residue of what he has to say is likely to be slight. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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Steve Fuller, Ph.D., teaches in the Graduate Program in Science and Technology Studies at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and in the Communications Department at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the founding and executive editor of the journal, Social Epistemology, and the author of three books including Philosophy of Science and Its Discontents.
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"The most important and exciting recent development in the philosophy of science is its merging with the sociology of scientific knowledge. Here is the first text book to make this development available. It belongs as a second text in every course of philosophy of science, whether taught in a philosophy department, or as a part of the scientific method teaching in psychology, political science, sociology, economics, etc. While the title does not signal this, it also belongs in every sociology of science course." --Donald T. Campbell, Ph.D., Past President, American Psychological Association, Member, National Academy of Sciences, Division 53, Social and Political Sciences
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- PublisherWestview Press
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0813306116
- ISBN 13 9780813306117
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages188
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