Автор: S. Amsterdamski
Название: Between History and Method: Disputes about the Rationality of Science
Издательство: Springer
Год: 1992
ISBN: 9401051992
Серия: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (Book 145)
Язык: English
Формат: pdf
Размер: 10,2 mb
Страниц: 227
Several years have passed since the original Polish edition (and then 1 the Italian translation) of this book appeared. The fact that the principal ideas expressed in it have withstood, as one sees it, the brunt of criticism, has led the author to remain basically with the original text. Two main changes have, however, been introduced. First, an Appendix have been added containing the original version of a paper presented at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin in June 1988 and a short postscript to that paper referring to comments made during two discussions at the Kolleg.
In recent years the landscape for historical and philosophical interpretation of the evolution of scientific knowledge has altered. The strongest of the new contenders for epistemological recognition are social constructivists, who analyze in detail how knowledge is produced within specific social settings, including the instruments and procedures of particular laboratories and the economic and political realities of particular scientific communities. The local character of these studies raises the question of whether they can ever provide generalizable epistemological claims.