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Author / Creator:Solomon, Miriam.
Imprint:Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2001.
Description:xi, 175 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4548989
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ISBN:0262194619 (hc : alk. paper)
Notes:"A Bradford book."
Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-170) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Empirical Success
  • 1. Scientific Success
  • 2. Empirical Success and Theoretical Success
  • 3. Defining Empirical Success
  • 3. Whig Realism
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Scientific Realists and Antirealists
  • 3. Kitcher's Recent Defense of Realism
  • 4. Discussion of Kitcher's Views
  • 5. Whig Realism
  • 6. Evidence for Whig Realism
  • 7. Methodological Import of Whig Realism
  • 4. Decision Vectors
  • 1. Decision Vectors and Scientific Rationality
  • 2. Survey of Decision Vectors
  • 5. Dissent
  • 1. Initial Reflections
  • 2. Evolutionary Biology after Publication of Origin
  • An Example of Good Distribution of Research Effort
  • 3. Genetics before the Discovery of DNA
  • An Example of Less Good Dsitribution of Research Effort
  • 4. The Continental Drift Dispute, 1920-1950
  • 5. Cancer Virus Research
  • 6. The "Invisible Hand of Reason"
  • 6. Consenus
  • 1. Background
  • 2. Initial Reflections
  • 3. Consensus on Plate Tectonics
  • 4. Consensus on the "Central Dogma"
  • 5. Comments
  • 7. Social Empiricism
  • 1. Statement of Social Empiricism
  • 2. Consensus on Plate Tectonics
  • 3. Consensus on the "Central Dogma"
  • 4. Consensus on the Variability Hypothesis
  • 5. Consensus on a Surgical Practice
  • 6. Consensus on the Ovulation Theory of Menstruation
  • 7. Consensus on the Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
  • 8. Dissolution of Consensus: Cold Fusion
  • 9. Dissolution of Consensus: Treatment of Peptic Ulcers
  • 10. A More Social Epistemology
  • 8. Epistemic Fairness
  • 1. Social Empiricism and Naturalized Epistemology
  • 2. Standpoint Epistemologies of Science
  • 3. Longino's Epistemology of Science
  • 4. Social Empiricism and Feminist Philosophy
  • 5. Conclusions
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index