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Relativism and realism in science / edited by Robert Nola.
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Boston :: Kluwer Academic Publishers,
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1988.
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ix, 299 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Gift ; Nagle Library MacLeod Collection copy donated by Emeritus Professor Roy MacLeod.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Monograph
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9027726477 9789027726476;
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Introduction : some issues concerning relativism and realism in science / Robert Nola -- Does the sociology of science discredit science? / David Papineau -- It's all in the day's work : a study of the ethnomethodology of science / John F. Fox -- The
strong sociology of knowledge without relativism / Philip Pettit -- Evolutionary epistemology and relativism / Kai Hahlweg and Clifford A. Hooker -- Are all theories equally good? : a dialogue / Larry Laudan -- Realism and descriptivism / Frederick Kroon -- On a dogma concerning realism and incommensurability / Graham Oddie -- Realism in the social sciences : social kinds and social laws / Gregory Currie -- The ultimate argument for scientific realism / Alan Musgrave.
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