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Scientific Objectivity and Its Contexts

Scientific Objectivity and Its Contexts

Agazzi, Evandro

Hardcover

FictionHistory & Philosophy of SciencePhysics

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ISBN10: 3319046594
ISBN13: 9783319046594
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Mar 27 2014
Pages: 482
Weight: 1.93
Height: 1.06 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
The first part of this book is of an epistemological nature and develops an original theory of scientific objectivity, understood in a weak sense (as intersubjective agreement among the specialists) and a strong sense (as having precise concrete referents). In both cases it relies upon the adoption of operational criteria designed within the particular perspective under which any single science considers reality. The object so attained has a proper ontological status, dependent on the specific character of the criteria of reference (regional ontologies). This justifies a form of scientific realism. Such perspectives are also the result of a complex cultural-historical situation. The awareness of such a historical determinacy of science justifies including in the philosophy of science the problems of ethics of science, relations of science with metaphysics and social dimensions of science that overstep the traditional restriction of the philosophy of science to an epistemology of science. It is to this context that the second part of the book is devoted.

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