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Book Synopsis
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.

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
One
Two Puzzles about Science: Reflections on Some Crises in Philosophy and Sociology of Science
The Consensual View and the Puzzle of Agreement
The "New Wave" Preoccupation with Dissensus
Two
The Hierarchical Structure of Scientific Debates
Factual Consensus Formation
Methodological Consensus Formation
Three
Closing the Evaluative Circle: Resolving Disagreements about Cognitive Values
The Covariance Fallacy
The Reticulated Model and the Mechanics of Goal Evaluation
The Reticulated Model of Scientific Rationality
Four
Dissecting the Holist Picture of Scientific Change
Kuhn on the Units of Scientific Change
Kuhn's Critique of Methodology
Five
A Reticulational Critique of Realist Axiology
and Methodology
Epilogue
References
Index

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: 16/01/1986
      ISBN13: 9780520057432, 978-0520057432
      ISBN10: 0520057430
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments
      Preface
      One
      Two Puzzles about Science: Reflections on Some Crises in Philosophy and Sociology of Science
      The Consensual View and the Puzzle of Agreement
      The "New Wave" Preoccupation with Dissensus
      Two
      The Hierarchical Structure of Scientific Debates
      Factual Consensus Formation
      Methodological Consensus Formation
      Three
      Closing the Evaluative Circle: Resolving Disagreements about Cognitive Values
      The Covariance Fallacy
      The Reticulated Model and the Mechanics of Goal Evaluation
      The Reticulated Model of Scientific Rationality
      Four
      Dissecting the Holist Picture of Scientific Change
      Kuhn on the Units of Scientific Change
      Kuhn's Critique of Methodology
      Five
      A Reticulational Critique of Realist Axiology
      and Methodology
      Epilogue
      References
      Index

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