Explaining Science: A Cognitive Approach (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series) - Softcover

Giere, Ronald N. N.

 
9780226292069: Explaining Science: A Cognitive Approach (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0226292061 ISBN 13: 9780226292069
Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 1990

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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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Ronald N. Giere is professor of philosophy at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Understanding Scientific Reasoning.

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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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Verlag
University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1990
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0226292061
ISBN 13 
9780226292069
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
344
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