On Historicizing Epistemology: An Essay

by Hans-Jörg Rheinberger

Book Overview

Epistemology, as generally understood by philosophers of science, is rather remote from the history of science and from historical concerns in general. Rheinberger shows that, from the late nineteenth through the late twentieth century, a parallel, alternative discourse sought to come to terms with the rather fundamental experience of the thoroughgoing scientific changes brought on by the revolution in physics. Philosophers of science and historians...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804762899
• ISBN13: 9780804762892
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.7"