Rescuing Reason: A Critique of Anti-Rationalist Views of Science and Knowledge - Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science - R. Nola - Books - Springer-Verlag New York Inc. - 9781402010422 - February 28, 2003
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R. Nola
Rescuing Reason: A Critique of Anti-Rationalist Views of Science and Knowledge - Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 2003 edition

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Do knowledge and science arise from the application of canons of rationality and scientific method? Or is all our scientific knowledge caused by socio-political factors, or by our interests in the socio-political - the view of sociologists of "knowledge"?

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index / Avail. in pbk. (ISBN 1402010435) at EUR 50.00. Table of Contents: Acknowledgements. Introduction. Part I: Knowledge, Science and the Epistemological Enterprise. Synopsis of Part I. 1. The Critical Tradition and Some of its Discontents. 2. The Problem of Knowledge. 3. Naturalism and Norms of Reason and Method. Part II: The Poverty of the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge. 4. Some German Connections: Marx and Mannheim. 5. The Edinburgh Connection I: The Strong Programme and the Social Causes of Scientific Belief. 6. The Edinburgh Connection II: Strong and Wrong. 7. The Wittgenstein Connection: The Social and the Rational. Part III: The French Connection: Foucault. Synopsis of Part III. 8. An Archaeological Dig Through Foucault's Texts. 9. Genealogy, Power and Knowledge. Part IV: The German Connection: Nietzsche. Synopsis of Part IV. 10. Nietzsche's Genealogy of Belief and Morality. 11. Epilogue. References. Name Index.

Contributor Bio:  Nola, Robert Robert Nola is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Auckland and the author of Rescuing Reason.

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released February 28, 2003
ISBN13 9781402010422
Publishers Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Pages 559
Dimensions 155 × 235 × 31 mm   ·   1.05 kg
Language English  

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