Blue cloth covers. xxi+321; pristine bar sm.dated sig. top fr. free endpaper & a few tiny spots top edge of textblock; unclipped jacket clean, sl.outward curling & v.tiny nick top fr. An excellent copy of this influential work. The final chapter is on 'Explaining the Revolution in Geology' (associated with the proof of continental drift) viewed in the light of his analysis.

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Title

EXPLAINING SCIENCE A Cognitive Approach

Publisher

University of Chicago Press, Chicago & London

Publication Date

1988

Language

English

ISBN 10

0226292053

ISBN 13

9780226292052

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st ed.

Condition

Fine-

Dust Jacket Condition

VG-Fine

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Philosophy of Science

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"This volume presents an attempt to construct a unified cognitive theory of science in relatively short compass. It confronts the strong program in sociology of science and the positions of various postpositivist philosophers of science, developing significant alternatives to each in a reeadily comprehensible sytle. It draws loosely on recent developments in cognitive science, without burdening the argument with detailed results from that source. . . . The book is thus a provocative one. Perhaps that is a measure of its value: it will lead scholars and serious student from a number of science studies disciplines into continued and sharpened debate over fundamental questions."� Richard Burian, Isis

"The writing is delightfully clear and accessible. On balance, few books advance our subject as well."� Paul Teller, Philosophy of Science

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Explaining Science challenges fundamental presuppositions of both the philosophy and the sociology of science. Finding a naturalistic middle ground between positivism and relativism, Ronald N. Giere suggests that scientific theories are families of models (similar to the 'cognitive maps' or 'mental models' of cognitive science) that reflect scientists' cognitive interactions with the world they observe.

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