Explaining Science by Ronald N Giere

Explaining Science by Ronald N Giere

A consideration of whether scientific knowledge is objective and universal or socially mediated, whether scientific truths are independent of human values and beliefs.

Giere, Ronald N.: - Ronald N. Giere (Ph.D., Cornell University) is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota and a former Director of the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Minnesota. In addition to many papers in the philosophy of science, he is the author of UNDERSTANDING SCIENTIFIC REASONING (4th ed 1997); EXPLAINING SCIENCE: A COGNITIVE APPROACH (1988); and SCIENCE WITHOUT LAWS (1999). He has also edited several volumes of papers in the philosophy of science, including, most recently, �Cognitive Models of Science� (1992) and �Origins of Logical Empiricism� (1996). Professor Giere is a Fellow of The American Association for the Advancement of Science, a long-time member of the editorial board of the journal �Philosophy of Science,� and a past president of the Philosophy of Science Association. His current research focuses on scientific cognition as a form of distributed cognition and on the perspectival nature of scientific knowledge.

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ISBN 13	9780226292069
ISBN 10	0226292061
Title	Explaining Science
Author	Ronald N Giere
Series	Science And Its Conceptual Foundations Series
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	The University of Chicago Press
Year published	1990-05-15
Number of pages	344
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