History, Historicity and Science (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780754656494)

This collection questions how the historical process affects our conception of science, including our understanding of its validity as well as our general conception of knowledge. The essays in this book consider the philosophical labours spanning the work of Descartes, Kant and Hegel, still the philosophical basis of our modern understanding of science, as well as recent selected philosophers and historians of science such as Kuhn and Feyerbend. Taken separately and together, these essays provide a sustained analysis of scientific claims to objective standing, the historicity of thought and inquiry.

Author: Joseph Margolis
ISBN-10: 0754656497
ISBN-13: 9780754656494
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 07/28/2006
Pages: 234
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.11lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d

Review Citation(s):
Scitech Book News 12/01/2006 pg. 14