Science and Values: The Aims of Science and Their Role in Scientific Debate

by Larry Laudan

Book Overview

Laudan constructs a fresh approach to a longtime problem for the philosopher of science: how to explain the simultaneous and widespread presence of both agreement and disagreement in science. Laudan critiques the logical empiricists and the post-positivists as he stresses the need for centrality and values and the interdependence of values, methods, and facts as prerequisites to solving the problems of consensus and dissent in science.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520052676
• ISBN13: 9780520052673
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 149 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.