History, Historicity and Science

History, Historicity and Science

Rockmore, Tom; Margolis, Joseph

Taylor & Francis Ltd

07/2006

234

Dura

Inglês

9780754656494

15 a 20 dias

Presents a collection of essays that questions how the historical process affects our conception of science, our understanding of its validity, and our general conception of knowledge. This book considers the philosophical labours spanning the work of Descartes, Kant and Hegel, and also of selected historians of science such as Kuhn and Feyerbend.
Contents: Introduction, Tom Rockmore and Joseph Margolis; The concepts of physics: rational contents and constructions in history, Michel Paty; Theory-change and the logic of enquiry: new bearings in philosophy of science, Christopher Norris; Science, history, and philosophy in Kant and Hegel, Angelica Nuzzo; Historicity, social psychology and change, Rom Harre and Fathali M. Moghaddam; The reality of history, David Carr; The social location of scientific practices, Hugh Lacey; Kuhn, different worlds and science as historical, Tom Rockmore; Incommensurability modestly recovered, Joseph Margolis; Index.
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