Explaining Science: A Cognitive Approach

by Ronald N. Giere

Book Overview

"This volume presents an attempt to construct a unified cognitive theory of science in relatively short compass. It confronts the strong program in sociology of science and the positions of various postpositivist philosophers of science, developing significant alternatives to each in a reeadily comprehensible sytle. It draws loosely on recent developments in cognitive science, without burdening the argument with detailed results from that source...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226292061
• ISBN13: 9780226292069
• Release Date: May 1990
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.1"