Author:
Kourany, Janet A.
Edition Statement:2nd ed.
Imprint:Belmont, CA : Wadsworth Pub. Co., c1998.
Descriptionviii, 440 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Note:Part I. THE SOCIAL CONTEXT IN WHICH SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE IS PRODUCED: On the psychology of scientists, and their social concerns / Gerald Holton -- A lab of her own / Marguerite Holloway -- Women join the ranks of science but remain invisible at the top / Natalie Angier -- Science vs. the female scientist / Shirley Tilghman -- Science vs. women: a radical solution / Shirley Tilghman -- An anthropologist visits the laboratory / Bruno Latour, Steve Woolgar -- Part II. THE EMPIRICAL BASIS OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE: The problem of the empirical basis / Karl Popper -- Observation / Norwood Russell Hanson -- Pump and circumstance: Robert Boyle's literary technology / Steven Shapin -- Interviewing women: a contradiction in terms / Ann Oakley -- Against putting the phenomena first: the discovery of the weak neutral current / Andy Pickering -- Part III. THE VALIDATION OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE: The confirmation of laws and theories / Rudolph Carnap -- Science: conjectures and refutations / Karl Popper -- Physical theory and experiment / Pierre Duhem -- Falsification and the methodology of scientific research programmes / Imre Lakatos -- Objectivity, value judgment, and theory choice / Thomas Kuhn -- Have only men evolved? / Ruth Hubbard -- Can there be a feminist science? / Helen Longino -- Part IV. THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE: Explanation in science / Carl Hempel -- Unity of science as a working hypothesis / Paul Oppenheim, Hilary Putnam -- The rationality of scientific revolutions / Karl Popper -- The function of dogma in scientific research / Thomas Kuhn -- The nature and necessity of scientific revolutions / Thomas Kuhn -- Dissecting the holist picture of scientific change / Larry Laudan -- Part V. REALISM VERSUS ANTI-REALISM: THE ONTOLOGICAL IMPORT OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGGE: The ontological status of theoretical entities / Grover Maxwell -- Arguments concerning scientific realism / Bas van Fraassen -- A case for scientific realism / Ernan McMullin -- The natural ontological attitude / Arthur Fine -- Critical silences in scientific discourse: problems of form and re-form / Evelyn Fox Keller -- Realism and instrumentalism in pre-Newtonian astronomy / Michael R. Gardner -- Experimentation and scientific realism / Ian Hacking.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references.
