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- catalog abstract ""Recently, social constructivists have claimed that the outcomes of scientific debates are strongly influenced by non-evidential factors such as the rhetorical prowess and professional clout of the rival researchers. The collection presents historical studies and philosophical analyses that undermine the plausibility of an extreme social constructivist perspective, yet indicate the need for a richer and more realistic account of scientific rationality." "The essays consider the nature of scientific controversy, how such controversies are resolved, and whether controversy is in fact necessary to the advancement of scientific knowledge."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11337075.
- catalog contributor b11337076.
- catalog contributor b11337077.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""Recently, social constructivists have claimed that the outcomes of scientific debates are strongly influenced by non-evidential factors such as the rhetorical prowess and professional clout of the rival researchers. The collection presents historical studies and philosophical analyses that undermine the plausibility of an extreme social constructivist perspective, yet indicate the need for a richer and more realistic account of scientific rationality." "The essays consider the nature of scientific controversy, how such controversies are resolved, and whether controversy is in fact necessary to the advancement of scientific knowledge."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Patterns of scientific controversies / Philip Kitcher -- Classifying scientific controversies / Aristedes Baltas -- Rhetoric and scientific controversies / Marcello Pera -- On the cognitive analysis of scientific controversies / Richard E. Grandy -- The concept of the individual and the idea(l) of method in seventeenth-century natural philosophy / Peter Machamer -- Dialectics, experiments, and mathematics in Galileo / William A. Wallace -- A rational controversy over compounding forces / Gideon Freudenthal -- The structure of a scientific controversy: Hooke versus Newton about colors / Maurizio Mamiani -- Scientific dialectics in action: the case of Joseph Priestley / Pierluigi Barrotta -- Controversies and the becoming of physical chemistry / Kostas Gavroglu -- Anthropology: art of science? a controversy about the evidence for cannibalism / Merrilee H. Salmon -- Multiple personalities, internal controversies and invisible marvels / Ian Hacking -- The theory of punctuated equilibria: taking apart a scientific controversy / Michael Ruse -- Quasars, causality, and geometry: a scientific controversy that should have happened but didn't / Wesley C. Salmon.".
- catalog extent "x, 278 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0195119878 (cloth)".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog subject "501 21".
- catalog subject "Q175 .S42323 1999".
- catalog subject "Science History.".
- catalog subject "Science Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "Science Social aspects.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Patterns of scientific controversies / Philip Kitcher -- Classifying scientific controversies / Aristedes Baltas -- Rhetoric and scientific controversies / Marcello Pera -- On the cognitive analysis of scientific controversies / Richard E. Grandy -- The concept of the individual and the idea(l) of method in seventeenth-century natural philosophy / Peter Machamer -- Dialectics, experiments, and mathematics in Galileo / William A. Wallace -- A rational controversy over compounding forces / Gideon Freudenthal -- The structure of a scientific controversy: Hooke versus Newton about colors / Maurizio Mamiani -- Scientific dialectics in action: the case of Joseph Priestley / Pierluigi Barrotta -- Controversies and the becoming of physical chemistry / Kostas Gavroglu -- Anthropology: art of science? a controversy about the evidence for cannibalism / Merrilee H. Salmon -- Multiple personalities, internal controversies and invisible marvels / Ian Hacking -- The theory of punctuated equilibria: taking apart a scientific controversy / Michael Ruse -- Quasars, causality, and geometry: a scientific controversy that should have happened but didn't / Wesley C. Salmon.".
- catalog title "Scientific controversies : philosophical and historical perspectives / edited by Peter Machamer, Marcello Pera, Aristides Baltas.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".