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Nice Derangement of Epistemes Post-Positivism in the Study of Science from Quine to Latour
by Zammito, John H.
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- Comments: 1. Since the 1950s, many philosophers of science have attacked positivism-the theory that scientific knowledge is grounded in objective reality. Reconstructing the history of these critiques, John H. Zammito argues that while so-called postpositivist theories of science are very often invoked, they actually provide little support for fashionable postmodern approaches to science studies.Zammito shows how problems that Quine and Kuhn saw in the philosophy of the natural sciences inspired a turn to the philoso
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- ISBN-13: 9780226978628
- ISBN: 0226978621
- Publisher: University of Chicago Press
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Reconstructing the critiques of positivism, John H. Zammito argues that positivist theories of science provide very little support for fashionable postmodern approaches to science studies.Zammito, John H. is the author of 'Nice Derangement of Epistemes Post-Positivism in the Study of Science from Quine to Latour' with ISBN 9780226978628 and ISBN 0226978621.
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