Scientific Rationality: The Sociological Turn (The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, 25)

Front Matter....Pages i-viii Introduction: The Sociological Turn....Pages 3-40 The Pseudo-Science of Science?....Pages 41-73 The Strengths of the Strong Programme....Pages 75-94 The Strong Program: A Dialogue....Pages 95-111 Problems of Intelligibility and Paradigm Instances....Pages 113-125 The Rational and the Social in the History of Science....Pages 127-163 A Plague on Both Your Houses....Pages 165-182 Two Historiographical Strategies: Ideas and Social Conditions in the History of Science....Pages 183-208 The Role of Arational Factors in Interpretive History: The Case of Kant and ESP....Pages 209-247 On the Sociology of Belief, Knowledge, and Science....Pages 249-263 Scientific and Other Interests....Pages 265-294 The Sociology of Reasons: Or Why “Epistemic Factors” are Really “Social Factors”....Pages 295-324 Back Matter....Pages 325-332