Scientific perspectivism /
Many people assume that the claims of scientists are objective truths. But historians, sociologists, and philosophers of science have long argued that scientific claims reflect the particular historical, cultural, and social context in which those claims were made. The nature of scientific knowledge...
| Основен автор: | Giere, Ronald N. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2006.
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http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=298805 |
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Scientific perspectivism. |
Съдържание:
- 1. SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE. What is the problem?
- Objective realism
- Constructivism
- Naturalism
- Perspectivism
- Retrospect. 2. COLOR VISION. Introduction
- Basic color science
- Color subjectivism
- Color objectivism
- Comparative color vision
- Color perspectivism
- The philosophy of color
- A final question. 3. SCIENTIFIC OBSERVING. Introduction
- Astronomy in color
- Deep space from the perspective of the hubble telescope
- The Milky Way in gamma ray perpsectives
- Conclusions within perspectives
- Imaging the brain
- Instrumental perspectives. 4. SCIENTIFIC THEORIZING. Introduction
- Representing
- Theories
- Laws of nature
- Fitness
- Maps
- Truth within a perspective
- Perspectives and paradigms
- Scientific kinds
- Perspective realism
- The contingency thesis revisited.