Beyond Positivism And Relativism: Theory, Method, And Evidence

By Larry Laudan

Book Overview

This book consists of thirteen essays. A few have appeared elsewhere and are reproduced largely intact; some are vastly changed from their original form; still others are entirely new. What all have in common is that they take on one or another cherished dogma of one or the other of the two influential epistemologies of science in our time--positivism or relativism. Collectively, they are designed to show that those familiar titans do not begin to exhaust the epistemologies options open to us as investigators trying to understand how science works.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813324688
• ISBN13: 9780813324685
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Westview Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 1.0" x 6.5"