{"product_id":"science-unfettered-james-e-mcguire-9780821413500","title":"Science Unfettered: A Philosophical Study in Sociohistorical Ontology Volume 28","description":"\u003cp\u003eWorking on a large canvas, \u003ci\u003eScience Unfettered\u003c\/i\u003e contributes to the ongoing debates in the philosophy of science. The ambitious aim of its authors is to reconceptualize the orientation of the subject, and to provide a new framework for understanding science as a human activity. Mobilizing the literature of the philosophy of science, the history of science, the sociology of science, and philosophy in general, Professors McGuire and Tuchanska build on these fields with the view of transforming their insights into a new epistemological and ontological basis for studying the enterprise of science.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this approach, McGuire and Tuchanska have combined work from both Anglo-American and Continental traditions of philosophy. As a result, the works of Popper, Kuhn, Quine, and Lakatos, as well as Heidegger, Gadamer, Nietzsche, Foucault, and Feyerabend, are called into play. In addition, \u003ci\u003eScience Unfettered\u003c\/i\u003e deals extensively with history and historicity, offering a theory of historicity of science as it emerges in sociocultural contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnorthodox in its approach, \u003ci\u003eScience Unfettered\u003c\/i\u003e articulates an alternative that views science ontologically as a \"practice,\" a perspective from which traditional issues concerning the relationship of experiment to theory, the cognitive to the social, the relation between historical change and epistemic validity, the meaning of \"objectivity\" and the like can be addressed in a more fruitful way than is possible by starting with the traditional, ontological framework of subject and object.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James E. McGuire,Barbara Tuchansk\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0821413503\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780821413500\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/15\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 472\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.94lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.36h x 6.37w x 1.46d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eScitech Book News\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2001 pg. 19","brand":"James E. McGuire","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086964666623,"sku":"9780821413500","price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_86edc69a-4b45-4ccd-b233-3d027c3ab5b3.jpg?v=1769097517","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/science-unfettered-james-e-mcguire-9780821413500","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}