Author | Brown, James Robert. author |
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Title | Scientific Rationality: The Sociological Turn [electronic resource] / by James Robert Brown |
Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1984 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7688-8 |
Descript | VIII, 332 p. online resource |
Introduction: The Sociological Turn -- The Pseudo-Science of Science? -- The Strengths of the Strong Programme -- The Strong Program: A Dialogue -- Problems of Intelligibility and Paradigm Instances -- The Rational and the Social in the History of Science -- A Plague on Both Your Houses -- Two Historiographical Strategies: Ideas and Social Conditions in the History of Science -- The Role of Arational Factors in Interpretive History: The Case of Kant and ESP -- On the Sociology of Belief, Knowledge, and Science -- Scientific and Other Interests -- The Sociology of Reasons: Or Why โEpistemic Factorsโ are Really โSocial Factorsโ