Science and Relativism: Some Key Controversies in the Philosophy of Science (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series)
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Language: English
Published by University of Chicago Press, 1990
Series: Book 34 of 40 - Science and Its Conceptual Foundations
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- Title
- Science and Relativism: Some Key Controversies in the Philosophy of Science (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series)
- Author
- Laudan, Larry
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Publication year
- 1990
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0226469492
- ISBN 13
- 9780226469492
- Series
- Book 34 of 40: Science and Its Conceptual Foundations
In recent years, many members of the intellectual community have embraced a radical relativism regarding knowledge in general and scientific knowledge in particular, holding that Kuhn, Quine, and Feyerabend have knocked the traditional picture of scientific knowledge into a cocked hat. Is philosophy of science, or mistaken impressions of it, responsible for the rise of relativism? In this book, Laudan offers a trenchant, wide-ranging critique of cognitive relativism and a thorough introduction to major issues in the philosophy of knowledge.
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Larry Laudan is professor and chairman in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Hawaii. Among his books are Progress and Its Problems, Science, and Values, and Science and Hypothesis.
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