The Advancement of Science
- 17 August 1995
- book
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP)
Abstract
The Advancement of Science attempts to understand the notions of scientific progress, scientific objectivity, and the growth of knowledge by taking up the challenges that have been issued by scholars in the history and sociology of science. Begins from an outline of classical views in philosophy of science and explains how those views were confronted with apparently problematic examples from scientific practice past and present. Then builds an account of science that emphasizes the ways in which socially situated scientists can gain objective understanding of the world.This publication has 110 references indexed in Scilit:
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