Progress and Its Problems Towards a Theory of Scientific Growth

Name: Progress and Its Problems Towards a Theory of Scientific Growth
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ISBN: 9780520037212

ISBN-10: 0520037219

ISBN-13: 9780520037212

Edition: 1978

Authors: Larry Laudan

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"A book that shakes philosophy of science to its roots. Laudan both destroys and creates. With detailed, scathing criticisms, he attacks the 'pregnant confusions' in extant philosophies of science. The progress they espouse derives from strictly empirical criteria, he complains, and this clashes with historical evidence. Accordingly, Laudan constructs a remedy from historical examples that involves nothing less than the redefinition of scientific rationality and progress . . . Surprisingly, after this reshuffling, science still looks like a noble-and progressive-enterprise ... The glory of Laudan's system is that it preserves scientific rationality and progress in the presence of social…

Book details

List price: $33.95
Copyright year: 1978
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 10/27/1978
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English