Explaining Science by Ronald N Giere
This volume presents an attempt to construct a unified cognitive theory of science in relatively short compass. It confronts the strong program in sociology of science and the positions of various postpositivist philosophers of science, developing significant alternatives to each in a reeadily comprehensible sytle. It draws loosely on recent developments in cognitive science, without burdening the argument with detailed results from that source. . . . The book is thus a provocative one. Perhaps that is a measure of its value: it will lead scholars and serious student from a number of science studies disciplines into continued and sharpened debate over fundamental questions.--Richard Burian, Isis The writing is delightfully clear and accessible. On balance, few books advance our subject as well.--Paul Teller, Philosophy of Science
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 | 9780226292052 |
| ISBN 10 | 0226292053 |
| Title | Explaining Science |
| Author | Ronald N Giere |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | The University of Chicago Press |
| Year published | 1988-06-01 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
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