Laudan constructs a fresh approach to a longtime problem for the philosopher of science: how to explain the simultaneous and widespread presence of both agreement and disagreement in science. Laudan critiques the logical empiricists and the post-positivists as he stresses the need for centrality and values and the interdependence of values, methods, and facts as prerequisites to solving the problems of consensus and dissent in science.
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Laudan constructs a fresh approach to a longtime problem for the philosopher of science: how to explain the simultaneous and widespread presence of both agreement and disagreement in science. Laudan critiques the logical empiricists and the post-positivists as he stresses the need for centrality and values and the interdependence of values, methods, and facts as prerequisites to solving the problems of consensus and dissent in science.
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Add this copy of Science and Values: the Aims of Science and Their Role to cart. $36.00, like new condition, Sold by Common Crow Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Pittsburgh, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1984 by University Of California Press.
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Fine in near fine jacket. First edition, 1984. Cloth 8vo, 148pp. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with minor shelfwear. Inscribed by Lauden to Adolf Grunbaum. Grunbaum is a prominent philosopher of science and critic of psychoanalysis, and was a founding creator of the University of Pittsburgh's Philosophy and History of Philosophy of Science Departments.
