Titlebook: Wittgenstein and Scientific Knowledge; A Sociological Persp Derek L. Phillips Textbook 1977Latest edition Derek L. Phillips 1977 knowledge.

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Relativism and Wittgenstein, knowledge. Most importantly, they both appear to lead to relativism. In this chapter, I will consider the relativism issue at greater length, and then will introduce some of Wittgenstein’s ideas which, I believe, are helpful in this regard.

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Paradigms and Incommensurability,ew image challenge the view that statements, including scientific theories, have some atomic, fixed meanings; they argue that statements have meanings only by virtue of their relations to other statements in the system to which they belong. Further, Kuhn and Feyerabend stress the very . of comparing

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The Demarcation Problem in Science,societies in which science is practised. The conflicts and controversies surrounding the views of Copernicus, Galileo, Darwin or Lysenko make this abundantly clear. Sometimes these controversies involve what are generally regarded as non-scientific or political considerations. Examples of this are t

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Possibilities and Persuasion,archistic epistemology, he states, ‘is not only a better means for improving knowledge, or of understanding history. It is also more appropriate for a free man to use than are its rigorous and “scientific” alternatives.’. I assume that in the above, ‘knowledge’ refers to scientific knowledge, and he

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Wittgenstein the Man, and their relevance for the practice of sociology and science more generally. Not only can we better understand the thought of Ludwig Wittgenstein by examining the social and intellectual milieu in which it developed, but we can also see the intimate link between his life and his work.

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