Science and Society: Studies in the Sociology of Science

by Joseph Agassi

Book Overview

"If a science has to be supported by fraudulent means, let it perish. " With these words of Kepler, Agassi plunges into the actual troubles and glories of science (321). The sociology of science is no foreign intruder upon scientific knowledge in these essays, for we see clearly how Agassi transforms the tired internalist/externalist debate about the causal influences in the history of science. The social character of the entire intertwined epistemological...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9400984391
• ISBN13: 9789400984394
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 536 Pages
• Weight: 1.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"