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Scientific knowledge : basic issues in the philosophy of science / Janet A. Kourany.

By: Kourany, Janet A.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Belmont, CA : Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1987Description: viii, 399 p. ; 24 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0534064442.Subject(s): Science -- PhilosophyDDC classification: 501
Contents:
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.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
General Lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 501 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00028009
Total holds: 0

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

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