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Science and Relativism: Some Key Controversies in the Philosophy of Science (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series) by Larry Laudan is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Science and Relativism: Some Key Controversies in the Philosophy of Science (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series) about?
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.
Who reads Science and Relativism: Some Key Controversies in the Philosophy of Science (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Larry Laudan
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 1990
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780226469492
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Fiction, Science, Philosophy
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