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Scientific Rationality: The Sociological Turn

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  • © 1984

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Authors:
  1. James Robert Brown

    1. Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto, Canada

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Part of the book series: The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science (WONS, volume 25)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction: The Sociological Turn

    • James Robert Brown
    Pages 3-40

  3. The Pseudo-Science of Science?

    • Larry Laudan
    Pages 41-73

  4. The Strengths of the Strong Programme

    • David Bloor
    Pages 75-94

  5. The Strong Program: A Dialogue

    • Gary Gutting
    Pages 95-111

  6. Problems of Intelligibility and Paradigm Instances

    • Barry Barnes
    Pages 113-125

  7. The Rational and the Social in the History of Science

    • Ernan McMullin
    Pages 127-163

  8. A Plague on Both Your Houses

    • Ian Jarvie
    Pages 165-182

  9. Two Historiographical Strategies: Ideas and Social Conditions in the History of Science

    • Andrew Lugg
    Pages 183-208

  10. The Role of Arational Factors in Interpretive History: The Case of Kant and ESP

    • Robert E. Butts
    Pages 209-247

  11. On the Sociology of Belief, Knowledge, and Science

    • Jerry Gaston
    Pages 249-263

  12. Scientific and Other Interests

    • John M. Nicholas
    Pages 265-294

  13. The Sociology of Reasons: Or Why “Epistemic Factors” are Really “Social Factors”

    • David Bloor
    Pages 295-324

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 325-332
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto, Canada

    James Robert Brown

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Scientific Rationality: The Sociological Turn

  • Authors: James Robert Brown

  • Series Title: The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7688-8

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1984

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-1812-9Published: 31 August 1984

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-8403-3Published: 28 October 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-7688-8Published: 11 November 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1566-659X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-1974

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 332

  • Topics: Philosophy of Science

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