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

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The Strong Sociology of Knowledge Without Relativism,spectable science — are a function of local context. On the contrary, it suggests that certain claims may enjoy absolute merits, transcendent of their context of origin. [For a contemporary version see Laudan (1977).]

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On a Dogma Concerning Realism and Incommensurability,rability (perhaps the only line of reasoning) is mistaken. It will emerge that anti-realists need not eschew commensurability in a large class of cases often thought to be prime candidates. In the second part of the paper I will show that realists are committed to theses which drive them rather far down the slope of incommensurability.

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,Radical Pluralism — An Alternative to Realism, Anti-Realism and Relativism,arranting differential choice, on the multiple interpretations or, very differently, multiple realities or worlds disclosed. Pluralism, however, to set down at once the crucial contrast, permits and typically makes rankings, which enable choice (including realist and idealist and theist choices, among many others).

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,It’s All in the Day’s Work: A Study of the Ethnomethodology of Science,ependently existing objects truths that are not artefacts of their own social and political performances. I conclude that it is mistaken to think that the ethnos have discovered or revealed such truths about scientists. I conclude in particular that they have not discovered that this traditional view of scientists is mistaken.

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Evolutionary Epistemology and Relativism,lent theories and hence all knowledge claims are relative to the particular theoretical tradition within which they are made. Perhaps forces external to science itself may causally bring about a scientific revolution, but at least in the relativistic respects the revolution will not have been cognitively chosen, it will simply have been caused.

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