Science Unfettered: A Philosophical Study in Sociohistorical OntologyOhio University Press, 2000 - 420 pages Working on a large canvas, Science Unfettered 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. In 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, Science Unfettered deals extensively with history and historicity, offering a theory of historicity of science as it emerges in sociocultural contexts. Unorthodox in its approach, Science Unfettered 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. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Ch1Ontic and Ontological Perspectives on Science | 17 |
Ch2Beyond Heideggers Existentialism and Gadamers Linguisticism | 63 |
Communities and Practice | 86 |
Science | 133 |
Ch5Historicity and Becoming | 178 |
Ch6Historicity of Science | 223 |
Ch7Science and Objectivity | 273 |
Epilogue | 326 |
Notes | 333 |
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