Rational Changes in Science

Book 116 of 214: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science

Pitt, Joseph C. (editor); Pera, Marcello (editor)

ISBN 10: 9027724172 ISBN 13: 9789027724175

Published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, MA, 1987

Language: English

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Title

Rational Changes in Science

Publisher

Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, MA

Publication Date

1987

Language

English

ISBN 10

9027724172

ISBN 13

9789027724175

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

First Edition.

Condition

Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition

Very Good

Weight

2 pounds

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THE PROBLEMS OF SCIENTIFIC RATIONALITY Fashion is a fickle mistress. Only yesterday scientific rationality enjoyed considerable attention, consideration, and even reverence among phi� losophers; "but today's fashion leads us to despise it, and the matron, rejected and abandoned as Hecuba, complains; modo maxima rerum, tot generis natisque potens - nunc trahor exui, inops", to cite Kant for our purpose, who cited Ovid for his. Like every fashion, ours also has its paradoxical aspects, as John Watkins correctly reminds in an essay in this volume. Enthusiasm for science was high among philosophers when significant scientific results were mostly a promise, it declined when that promise became an undeniable reality. Nevertheless, as with the decline of any fashion, even the revolt against scientific rationality has some reasonable grounds. If the taste of the philosophical community has changed so much, it is not due to an incident or a whim. This volume is not about the history of and reasons for this change. Instead, it provides a view of the new emerging image of scientific rationality in both its philosophical and historical aspects. In particular, the aim of the contributions gathered here is to focus on the concept around which the discussions about rationality have mostly taken place: scientific change.

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