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the demise of the logical positivism programme. The answers given
to these qu- tions have deepened the already existing gap between
philosophy and the history and practice of science. While the
positivists argued for a spontaneous, steady and continuous growth
of scientific knowledge the post-positivists make a strong case for
a fundamental discontinuity in the development of science which can
only be explained by extrascientific factors. The political, social
and cultural environment, the argument goes on, determine both the
questions and the terms in which they should be answered.
Accordingly, the sociological and historical interpretation -
volves in fact two kinds of discontinuity which are closely
related: the discontinuity of science as such and the discontinuity
of the more inclusive political and social context of its
development. More precisely it explains the discontinuity of the
former by the discontinuity of the latter subordinating in effect
the history of science to the wider political and social history.
The underlying idea is that each historical and - cial context
generates scientific and philosophical questions of its own. From
this point of view the question surrounding the nature of knowledge
and its development are entirely new topics typical of the
twentieth-century social context reflecting both the level and the
scale of the development of science.
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The Unity of Science in the Arabic Tradition - Science, Logic, Epistemology and their Interactions (English, Arabic, Hardcover, 2008 ed.)
Shahid Rahman, Tony Street, Hassan Tahiri
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R7,462
R4,315
Discovery Miles 43 150
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the demise of the logical positivism programme. The answers given
to these qu- tions have deepened the already existing gap between
philosophy and the history and practice of science. While the
positivists argued for a spontaneous, steady and continuous growth
of scientific knowledge the post-positivists make a strong case for
a fundamental discontinuity in the development of science which can
only be explained by extrascientific factors. The political, social
and cultural environment, the argument goes on, determine both the
questions and the terms in which they should be answered.
Accordingly, the sociological and historical interpretation -
volves in fact two kinds of discontinuity which are closely
related: the discontinuity of science as such and the discontinuity
of the more inclusive political and social context of its
development. More precisely it explains the discontinuity of the
former by the discontinuity of the latter subordinating in effect
the history of science to the wider political and social history.
The underlying idea is that each historical and - cial context
generates scientific and philosophical questions of its own. From
this point of view the question surrounding the nature of knowledge
and its development are entirely new topics typical of the
twentieth-century social context reflecting both the level and the
scale of the development of science.
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