Scientific knowledge : basic issues in the philosophy of science / Janet A. Kourany.
By: Kourany, Janet A
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General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 501 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00028009 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
* Broad ranging anthology that presents the best classical and contemporary material within the context of current trends in the philosophy of science (can be used as a core text or a supplemental reader).
Includes bibliographical references.
Part 1: Philosophy of science : an overview -- Part 2: Explanation:a major goal of scientific knowledge -- Part 3: The validation of scientific knowledge -- Part 4: The historical development of scientific knowledge -- Part 5: Realism versus anti-realism: the ontological import of scientific knowledge.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Philosophy of Science: An Overview
- Part 1 The Social Context in Which Scientific Knowledge is Produced
- On the Psychology of Scientists, and Their Social Concerns
- A Lab of Her Own
- Women Join the Ranks of Science but Remain Invisible at the Top
- Science v. the Female Scientist
- Science v. Women-A Radical Solution
- An Anthropologist Visits the Laboratory
- Part 2 The Empirical Basis of Scientific Knowledge
- The Problem Of The Empirical Basis
- Observation
- Pump and Circumstance: Robert Boyle''s Literary Technology
- Interviewing Women: A Contradiction in Terms
- Against Putting the Phenomena First: The Discovery of the Week Neutral Current
- Part 3 The Validation of Scientific Knowledge
- The Confirmation Of Laws and Theories
- Science: Conjectures and Refutations
- Physical Theory and Experiment
- Falsification and the Methodology of Scien- tific Research Pogrammes
- Objectivity, Value Judgment, and Theory Choice
- Have Only Men Evolved
- Can There Be a Feminist Science?
- Part 4 The Historical Development of Scientific Knowledge
- Explanation in Science?
- Unity of Science as a Working Hypothesis
- The Rationality of Scientific Revolutions
- The Function of Dogma in Scientific Research
- The Nature and Necessity of Scientific Reasoning
- Dissecting the Holist Picture of Scientific Change
- Part 5 Realism Versus Anti-Realism: The Ontological Import of Scientific Knowledge
- The Ontological Status of Theoretical Entities
- Arguments Concerning Scientific Realism
- A Case for Scientific Realism
- The Natural Ontological Attitude
- Critical Silences in Scientific Discourse: Problems of Form and Reform
- Realism and Instrumentalism in Pre-Newtonian Astronomy
- Experimentation and Scientific Realism