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Methodology, Metaphysics and the History of Science - In Memory of Benjamin Nelson (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1984)
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Methodology, Metaphysics and the History of Science - In Memory of Benjamin Nelson (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1984)
Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 84
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This selection of papers that were presented (or nearly so ) to the
Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science during the
seventies fairly re presents some of the most disturbing issues of
scientific knowledge in these years. To the distant observer, it
may seem that the defense of rational standards, objective
reference, methodical self-correction, even the distin guishing of
the foolish from the sensible and the truth-seeking from the
ideological, has nearly collapsed. In fact, the defense may be seen
to have shifted; the knowledge business came under scrutiny decades
ago and, indeed, from the time of Francis Bacon and even far
earlier, the practicality of the discovery of knowledge was either
hailed or lamented. So the defense may be founded on the premise
that science may yet be liberating. In that case, the analysis of
philosophical issues expands to embrace issues of social interest
and social function, of instrumentality and arbitrary perspective,
of biological constraints (upon knowledge as well as upon the
species-wide behavior of human beings in other relationships too),
of distortions due to explanatory metaphors and imposed categories,
and of radical comparisons among the perspectives of different
civilizations. Some of our contributors are frankly programmatic,
showing how problems must be formulated afresh, how evasions must
be identified and omissions rectified, but they do not reach their
own completion."
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