HISTORY, HISTORICITY AND SCIENCE; ED. BY TOM ROCKMORE

This fresh collection of essays questions how the historical process affects our conception of science, including our understanding of its validity as well as our general conception of knowledge. The essays in this book consider the philosophical labours spanning the work of Descartes, Kant and Hegel, still the philosophical basis of our modern understanding of science, as well as recent selected philosophers and historians of science such as Kuhn and Feyerbend. Themes raised include the philosophical basis for the validity of science, the possibility of ever knowing the independent world as it truly is, and the intelligibility of construing scientific knowledge as a historical. Taken separately and together, these essays provide a sustained analysis of scientific claims to objective standing, the historicity of thought and inquiry. They point toward unfinished philosophical business and the need for a new beginning.

This fresh collection of essays questions how the historical process affects our conception of science, including our understanding of its validity as well as our general conception of knowledge. The essays in this book consider the philosophical labors spanning the work of Descartes, Kant and Hegel, still the philosophical basis of our modern understanding of science, as well as recent selected philosophers and historians of science such as Kuhn and Feyerbend.

Themes raised include the philosophical basis for the validity of science, the possibility of ever knowing the independent world as it truly is, and the intelligibility of construing scientific knowledge as a historical. Taken separately and together, these essays provide a sustained analysis of scientific claims to objective standing, the historicity of thought and inquiry. They point toward unfinished philosophical business and the need for a new beginning.

Title page 1 Copyright 2 Contents 3 List of Contributors 5 Tom Rockmore and Joseph Margolis - Introduction 7 1 Michel Paty - The Concepts of Physics: Rational Contents and Constructions in History 13 2 Christopher Norris - Theory-change and the Logic of Enquiry: New Bearings in Philosophy of Science 37 3 Angelica Nuzzo - Science, History and Philosophy in Kant and Hegel 83 4 Rom Harre and Fathali M. Moghaddam - Historicity, Social Psychology and Change 101 5 David Carr - The Reality of History 127 6 Hugh Lacey - The Social Location of Scientific Practices 143 7 Tom Rockmore - Kuhn, Different Worlds and Science as Historical 173 8 Joseph Margolis - Incommensurability Modestly Recovered 195 INDEX 227 Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 The Concepts of Physics: Rational Contents and Constructions in History -- 2 Theory-change and the Logic of Enquiry: New Bearings in Philosophy of Science -- 3 Science, History and Philosophy in Kant and Hegel -- 4 Historicity, Social Psychology and Change -- 5 The Reality of History -- 6 The Social Location of Scientific Practices -- 7 Kuhn, Different Worlds and Science as Historical -- 8 Incommensurability Modestly Recovered -- Index The concepts of physics : rational contents and constructions in history / Michel Paty Theory-change and the logic of enquiry : new bearings in philosophy of science / Christopher Norris Science, history, and philosophy in Kant and Hegel / Angelica Nuzzo Historicity, social psychology and change / Rom Harrвe and Fathali M. Moghaddam The reality of history / David Carr The social location of scientific practices / Hugh Lacey Kuhn, different worlds and science as historical / Tom Rockmore Incommensurability modestly recovered / Joseph Margolis. "This fresh collection of essays questions how the historical process affects our conception of science, including our understanding of its validity as well as our general conception of knowledge. The essays in this book consider the philosophical labours spanning the work of Descartes, Kant and Hegel, still the philosophical basis of our modern understanding of science, as well as recent selected philosophers and historians of science such as Kuhn and Feyerbend."--Jacket. Presents a collection of essays that questions how the historical process affects our conception of science, our understanding of its validity, and our general conception of knowledge. This book considers the philosophical labours spanning the work of Descartes, Kant and Hegel, and also of selected historians of science such as Kuhn and Feyerbend.