New Textbooks for Teaching Philosophy of Science.
It develops three types of criticism of science, usually lumped together: the prevalent image of science, the flaws in the practice of science, and the institution of science that threatens significant goals and values. That work considered instead the diversity of the sciences and questioned the id...
| Published in: | Philosophy of Science Vol. 90; no. 1; pp. 200 - 209 |
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Cambridge University Press
Jan2023
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