Titlebook: Relativism and Realism in Science; Robert Nola Book 1988 Kluwer Academic Publishers 1988 philosophy of science.realism.relativism.science

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Does the Sociology of Science Discredit Science?,of their senses, and then proceed by valid inferences to their conclusions. The scientific community is the rational community ., and the findings of science are simply the conclusions forced on scientists by the dictates of reason.

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,It’s All in the Day’s Work: A Study of the Ethnomethodology of Science,hed practice of other sociologists, I shall call the ethnos — are like their conclusions about the work of scientists they have studied. As they typically conclude that natural scientists misunderstand the nature of their own enterprise, or at least in their publications so write as (perhaps unwitti

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The Strong Sociology of Knowledge Without Relativism,lativism. It distinguishes between knowledge proper and mere ideology and it seeks only to give a social explanation of the claims made by the latter. At the cost of having to deploy such a controversial distinction, it avoids any suggestion that serious cognitive claims — in particular, those of re

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Evolutionary Epistemology and Relativism,pment. The essence of cognitive relativism is to deny that humans have access to methods for objectively criticising their own cognitive commitments; in particular, relativists argue the absence of critical methods which would transcend the conditions which produced those commitments. For example, i

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Realism and Descriptivism, of how terms refer. Where conceded, this relationship is then commonly described in the following terms: if you are a descriptivist about the mechanism of term-reference, you are almost bound to be a kind of antirealist about what terms stand for; if, on the other hand, you are not a descriptivist

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Realism in the Social Sciences: Social Kinds and Social Laws, physically embodied creatures are part of that world; but we do not create it, our thought and action do not sustain it, and there are structural features of it (‘the laws of nature’) that we can do nothing to alter. It contains things that we never will observe, that perhaps we could never observe

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The Ultimate Argument for Scientific Realism,s, is to have true theories about the world, where ‘true’ is understood in the classical correspondence sense. And this seems immediately to presuppose that at least some forms of relativism are mistaken. The truth which realists aim for is absolute or objective, rather than relative to ‘conceptual

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