1st Edition
Scientific Controversies A Socio-Historical Perspective on the Advancement of Science
Edited By Dominique Raynaud
Copyright 2015
320 Pages
by
Routledge
320 Pages
by
Routledge
320 Pages
by
Routledge
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In Scientific Controversies , Dominque Raynaud shows how organized debates in the sciences help us establish or verify our knowledge of the world. If debates focus on form, scientific controversies are akin to public debates that can be understood within the framework of theories of conflict. If they focus on content, then such controversies have to do with a specific activity and address the... Read more
Introduction; 1: Relativism and Rationalism: A Metacontroversy; 2: The Controversy between Pasteur and Pouchet: An Essay on the Principle of Accumulated Asymmetries; 3: The Vitalism–Organicism Controversy between Paris and Montpellier: An Essay on the Social Determination of Knowledge; 4: Intromission versus Extramission in Oxford: An Essay on the Norms of Rationality; 5: Al-Samarqand?’s Native Theory of Controversies: An Essay on the Negotiation of Truth 1; 6: The SSK in the Name of Prestigious Ancestors: Duhem, Quine and Wittgenstein; Conclusion
Biography
Dominique Raynaud
