Epistemology and the social / edited by Evandro Agazzi, Javier Echeverría and Amparo Gómez Rodríguez.

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TextSeries: Poznań studies in the philosophy of the sciences and the humanities ; v. 96.Publication details: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2008.Description: 1 online resource (231 pages)Content type:

text

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9781435651463
1435651464
9789401206037
9401206031
9042024216
9789042024212

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H61 .E65 2008eb

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EPISTEMOLOGY AND THE SOCIAL; CONTENTS; Introduction: Epistemology and the Social; PART 1. GENERAL PERSPECTIVES; Epistemology and the Social: A Feedback Loop; Historical and Transcendental Factors in the Construction of the Sciences; Puzzles and Problems.; Normativity and Self-Interest in Scientific Research; PART 2. VALUES IN THE STRUCTURE OF SCIENCE; Economic Values in the Configuration of Science; The Philosophical Impact of Technoscience or the Development of a Pragmatic Philosophy of Science; PART 3. SOCIAL IMPACT ON PARTICULAR SCIENCE.

Summary: "Epistemology had to come to terms with "the social" on two different occasions. The first was represented by the dispute about the epistemological status of the "social" sciences, and in this case the already well established epistemology of the natural sciences seemed to have the right to dictate the conditions for a discipline to be a science. But the social sciences could successfully vindicate the legitimacy of their specific criteria for scientificity. More recently, the impact of social factors on the construction of our knowledge (including scientific knowledge) has reversed ... the old position and promoted social inquiry to the role of a criterion for evaluating the purport of cognitive (including scientific) statements"--Page 4 of cover

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Papers presented at a meeting of the International Academy of Philosophy of Science, held Sept. 22-25, 2005, in Tenerife, Canary Islands.

"Epistemology had to come to terms with "the social" on two different occasions. The first was represented by the dispute about the epistemological status of the "social" sciences, and in this case the already well established epistemology of the natural sciences seemed to have the right to dictate the conditions for a discipline to be a science. But the social sciences could successfully vindicate the legitimacy of their specific criteria for scientificity. More recently, the impact of social factors on the construction of our knowledge (including scientific knowledge) has reversed ... the old position and promoted social inquiry to the role of a criterion for evaluating the purport of cognitive (including scientific) statements"--Page 4 of cover