Science and Values
by Laudan, LarryEdition: Reprint
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Pub. Date: 1986-02-01
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Summary
Laudan constructs a fresh approach to a longtime problem for the philosopher of science: how to explain the simultaneous and widespread presence of both agreement and disagreement in science. Laudan critiques the logical empiricists and the post-positivists as he stresses the need for centrality and values and the interdependence of values, methods, and facts as prerequisites to solving the problems of consensus and dissent in science.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| Preface | p. xi |
| Two Puzzles about Science: Reflections on Some Crises in Philosophy and Sociology of Science | p. 1 |
| The Consensual View and the Puzzle of Agreement | p. 3 |
| The "New Wave" Preoccupation with Dissensus | p. 13 |
| The Hierarchical Structure of Scientific Debates | p. 23 |
| Factual Consensus Formation | p. 26 |
| Methodological Consensus Formation | p. 33 |
| Closing the Evaluative Circle: Resolving Disagreements about Cognitive Values | p. 42 |
| The Covariance Fallacy | p. 43 |
| The Reticulated Model and the Mechanics of Goal Evaluation | p. 50 |
| The Reticulated Model of Scientific Rationality | p. 62 |
| Dissecting the Holist Picture of Scientific Change | p. 67 |
| Kuhn on the Units of Scientific Change | p. 68 |
| Kuhn's Critique of Methodology | p. 87 |
| A Reticulational Critique of Realist Axiology and Methodology | p. 103 |
| Epilogue | p. 138 |
| References | p. 141 |
| Index | p. 145 |
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