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Knowledge, society, and reality : problems of the social analysis of knowledge and of scientific realism /
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| Lenguaje: | English Spanish |
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Amsterdam ; Atlanta, GA :
Rodopi,
1993.
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| Colección: | Rodopi philosophical studies ;
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Ch. 1. Weak Programs and the Strong Program in the Sociology of Knowledge. Weak Programs. The Strong Program. Social Theory or Sociological Analysis
- Ch. 2. The Wide Sociology of Knowledge. Sociological Explanation and Truth. Technical Knowledge and the Transfer of Technology. Conceptions of Truth and Theories of Society. Recapitulation
- Ch. 3. Critique of the Strong Program. Naturalism and its Problems. The Realism of the Strong Program. Transcendental Realism. A Realist, Antinaturalist, Strong Program
- Ch. 4. Social Theory and the Historiography of Science. The Internalism/Externalism Dichotomy. A Sociological Model of Scientific Discovery. Naturalist and Transcendentalist Approaches to Knowledge
- Ch. 5. Knowledge, Production and Exploitation. Society and Persons. Production and Exploitation. Technical, Scientific-Technical, and Scientific Knowledge
- Ch. 6. Interpretation and Resistance to Scientific Change.
- Parameters for the Analysis of Scientific and Technological Change and the Characterization of Technological, Scientific and Scientific-Technological Processes. Some Illustrative Cases
- Ch. 7. Objectivity and Truth. A Metaphysical Realist Correspondence Interpretation of Truth. Internal Realism. Objectivity in the Context of Practical Action and Truth as Consensus. Objectivity and Truth as Social Notions
- Ch. 8. Rationality. Moderately Radical Relativism. Two Approaches to Rationality: Analytic and Sociological. Categorizations of Relativism. Advantages of Moderately Radical Relativism. Arguments Against Cultural Relativism. Pure Conditions of Rationality. The Objection to Dewey. Conceptual Relativism and Cultural Relativism. Relativism and Incommensurability. Legitimacy and Legitimation
- Ch. 9. Polemics on Scientific Realism. The Constructive Empiricism of van Fraassen. Realism and Models. Boyd's Naturalist Defense. Convergent Realism and Laudan's Critique.
- Ch. 10. Experimentation, Conceptual Frames, and Scientific Realism. Realism about Entities and Realism about Theories. The Argument from the Success of Science. Scientific Theories and Models. Intervention: experimentation and the Independence of entities with respect to theories. The Structure and Development of Conceptual Frames. The Notion of the History of Science and its Relation to the Problem of Realism.