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Science and Relativism : Some Key Controversies in the Philosophy of Science (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series)
Science and Relativism Some Key Controversies in the Philosophy of Science - Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series Author:Larry Laudan In recent years, many members of the intellectual community have embraced a radical relativism regarding knowledge in general and scientific knowledge in particular, holding that Kuhn, Quine, and Feyerabend have knocked the traditional picture of scientific knowledge into a cocked hat. Is philosophy of science, or mistaken impressions of it, res... more »ponsible for the rise of relativism? In this book, Laudan offers a trenchant, wide-ranging critique of cognitive relativism and a thorough introduction to major issues in the philosophy of knowledge.« less