Scientific objectivity and its contexts [electronic resource] / Evandro Agazzi.
Agazzi, Evandro, author.
2014
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Title Scientific objectivity and its contexts [electronic resource] / Evandro Agazzi.
Author Agazzi, Evandro, author.
ISBN 9783319046600 electronic book
3319046608 electronic book
9783319046594
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04660-0
Published Cham : Springer, 2014.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xvii, 482 pages) : illustrations
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-319-04660-0 doi
Call Number Q175
Dewey Decimal Classification 501
Summary 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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Historical and Philosophical Background
The Characterisation of Objectivity
First Corollaries in the Philosophy of Science
The Ontological Commitment of Science
Scientific Realism
The Contexts of Objectivity
Corollaries in the Philosophy of Science
Scientific Truth Revisited
The Context of Making Science
Science and Metaphysics.

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