The Process of science
Subtitle: contemporary philosophical approaches to understanding scientific practice
By: Nancy J. Nersessian, editor.
Contributors: Nersessian, Nancy J.
Series: Science and philosophy
Publisher: M. Nijhoff; Distributors for the United States and Canada, Kluwer Academic Publishers
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Dordrecht; Boston; Hingham, MA, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
Subjects: Science -- Philosophy.; Science -- Methodology.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: Method in the philosophy of science and epistemology / Dudley Shapere; title: 'Twixt method and madness / Thomas Nickles; title: Historical realism and contextual objectivity / Marjorie Grene; title: Research problems and the understanding of science / William Berkson; title: Twenty years after / Joseph Agassi; title: The semantic approach to scientific theories / Bas C. van Frassen; title: The garden in the machine / Sandra Harding; title: The cognitive study of science / Ronald N. Giere; title: A cognitive-historical approach to meaning in scientific theories / Nancy J. Nersessian; title: Naturalizing observation / Harold I. Brown; title: Realist methodology in genetics / Richard M. Burian; title: Parsimony and the units of selection / Elliott Sober.