AuthorBrown, James Robert. author
TitleScientific Rationality: The Sociological Turn [electronic resource] / by James Robert Brown
ImprintDordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1984
Connect tohttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7688-8
Descript VIII, 332 p. online resource

CONTENT

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


SUBJECT

  1. Philosophy
  2. Philosophy and science
  3. Philosophy
  4. Philosophy of Science