The Politics and rhetoric of scientific method
Subtitle: historical studies
By: edited by John A. Schuster and Richard R. Yeo.
Contributors: Schuster, John Andrew, 1947-; Yeo, Richard R., 1948-
Series: Australasian studies in history and philosophy of science ;; v. 4
Publisher: Reidel; Sold and distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Kluwer Academic Publishers
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Dordrecht; Boston; Hingham, MA, U.S.A
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
Subjects: Science -- Methodology.; Science -- History.; Science -- Philosophy.; Science -- Social aspects.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Galileo that Feyerabend missed / Alan Chalmers; title: Cartesian method as mythic speech / John A. Schuster; title: Steady as a rock: methodology and moving continents / H.E. Le Grand; title: Methodology as a normative conceptual problem / T.D. Stokes; title: Inside the cell / Jan Sapp; title: The order of ideas / W.R. Albury; title: Method and the "micropolitics" of science / David Philip Miller; title: Scientific method and the rhetoric of science in Britain, 1830-1917 / Richard R. Yeo.