Science and Values: The Aims of Science and Their Role in Scientific Debate

ISBN-13: 9780520057432 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 160 str.

Larry Laudan

Opis

Laudan constructs a fresh approach to a longtime problem for the philosopher of science: how to explain the simultaneous and widespread presence of both agreement and disagreement in science. Laudan critiques the logical empiricists and the post-positivists as he stresses the need for centrality and values and the interdependence of values, methods, and facts as prerequisites to solving the problems of consensus and dissent in science.