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Antipositivist Theories of the Sciences: Critical Rationalism, Critical Theory and Scientific Realism
Norman Stockman
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Description for Antipositivist Theories of the Sciences: Critical Rationalism, Critical Theory and Scientific Realism
hardcover. Series: Sociology of the Sciences - Monographs S. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 597.
The sciences are too important to be left exclusively to scientists, and indeed they have not been. The structure of scientific knowledge, the role of the sciences in society, the appropriate social contexts for the pursuit of scientific inquiry, have long been matters for reflection and debate about the sciences carried on both within academe and outside it. Even within the universities this reflection has not been the property of any single discipline. Philosophy might have been first in the field, but history and the social sciences have also entered the fray. For the latter, new problems came to the ... Read more
The sciences are too important to be left exclusively to scientists, and indeed they have not been. The structure of scientific knowledge, the role of the sciences in society, the appropriate social contexts for the pursuit of scientific inquiry, have long been matters for reflection and debate about the sciences carried on both within academe and outside it. Even within the universities this reflection has not been the property of any single discipline. Philosophy might have been first in the field, but history and the social sciences have also entered the fray. For the latter, new problems came to the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1983
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
284
Condition
New
Series
Sociology of the Sciences - Monographs S.
Number of Pages
284
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789027715678
SKU
V9789027715678
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