Engaging Science - How to Understand Its Practices Philosophically (Paperback, New)

Summarizing this century's major debates over realism and the rationality of scientific knowledge, Joseph Rouse believes that these disputes oversimplify the political and cultural significance of the sciences. He provides an alternative understanding of science that focuses on practices rather than knowledge. Rouse first outlines the shared assumptions by ostensibly opposed interpretive stances toward science: scientific realism, social constructivism, empiricism, and postempiricist historical rationalism. He then advances cultural studies as an alternative approach, one that understands the sciences as ongoing patterns of situated activity whose material setting is part of practice. Cultural studies of science, the author suggests, take seriously their own participation in and engagement with the culture of science, rejecting the purported detachment of earlier philosophical or sociological standpoints. Rather, such studies offer specific, critical discussions of how and why science matters, and to whom, and how opportunities for meaningful understanding and action are transformed by scientific practices.

General

Imprint:	Cornell University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 1996
First published:	1996
Authors:	Joseph Rouse
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade / Trade
Pages:	280
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-8014-8289-2
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Philosophy of science Promotions
LSN:	0-8014-8289-5
Barcode:	9780801482892

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