Scientific controversies : philosophical and historical perspectives /
Social constructionists claim that scientific debates are influenced by non-evidential factors such as the rhetoric and professional clout of the participants. These essays undermine an extreme social constructionist perspective and indicate the need for a more realistic scientific rationality.
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2000.
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Table of Contents:
- Patterns of scientific controversies / Philip Kitcher
- Classifying scientific controversies / Aristedes Baltas
- Rhetoric and scientific controversies / Marcello Pera
- On the cognitive analysis of scientific controversies / Richard E. Grandy
- The concept of the individual and the idea(l) of method in seventeenth-century natural philosophy / Peter Machamer
- Dialectics, experiments, and mathematics in Galileo / William A. Wallace
- A rational controversy over compounding forces / Gideon Freudenthal
- The structure of a scientific controversy: Hooke versus Newton about colors / Maurizio Mamiani
- Scientific dialectics in action: the case of Joseph Priestley / Pierluigi Barrotta
- Controversies and the becoming of physical chemistry / Kostas Gavroglu
- Anthropology: art of science? a controversy about the evidence for cannibalism / Merrilee H. Salmon
- Multiple personalities, internal controversies and invisible marvels / Ian Hacking
- The theory of punctuated equilibria: taking apart a scientific controversy / Michael Ruse
- Quasars, causality, and geometry: a scientific controversy that should have happened but didn't / Wesley C. Salmon.
