A nice derangement of epistemes : post-positivism in the study of science from Quine to Latour / John H. Zammito.
Pubblicazione:
Chicago : The University of Chicago press, c2004.
Descrizione fisica:
X, 390 p. ; 23 cm
Contiene:
Indice: Acknowledgments. Introduction. 1. From positivism to post-positivism 2. The perils of semantic ascent: Quine and post-positivism in the philosophy of science 3. Living in different worlds? Kuhn's misadventures with incommensurability 4. Doing Kuhn one better? The (failed) marriage of history and philosophy of science 5. How Kuhn became a sociologist (and why he didn't like it): the strong program and the social construction of science 6. All the way down: social constructivism and the turn to microsociological studies 7. Women, ANTs and (other) dangerous things: hybrid discourses 8. A nice derangement of epistemes: radical reflexivity and the science wars. Conclusion: the hyperbolic derangement of epistemes. Notes. Index
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