期刊全称 | Antipositivist Theories of the Sciences | 期刊简称 | Critical Rationalism | 影响因子2023 | Norman Stockman | 视频video | http://file.papertrans.cn/159/158651/158651.mp4 | 学科分类 | Sociology of the Sciences - Monographs | 图书封面 |  | 影响因子 | The sciences are too important to be left exclusively to scientists, and indeed they have not been. The structure of scientific knowledge, the role of the sciences in society, the appropriate social contexts for the pursuit of scientific inquiry, have long been matters for reflection and debate about the sciences carried on both within academe and outside it. Even within the universities this reflection has not been the property of any single discipline. Philosophy might have been first in the field, but history and the social sciences have also entered the fray. For the latter, new problems came to the fore, since reflection on the sciences is, in the case of the social sciences, necessarily also reflection on themselves as sciences. Reflection on the natural sciences and self-reflection by the social sciences came to be dominated in the 1960s by the term ‘positivism‘. At the time when this word had been invented, the sciences were flourishing; their social and material environment had become increasingly favourable to scientific progress, and the sciences were pointing the way to an optimistic future. In the later twentieth century, however, ‘positivism‘ came to be a word used mo | Pindex | Book 1983 |
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