Philosophy of science and its discontents (Record no. 40402)
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| fixed length control field | 01195cam a2200205 4500 |
| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER | |
| control field | 0898620201 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 060821t1993 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 0898620201 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Fuller, S |
| 245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Philosophy of science and its discontents |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 2nd |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | London : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Guilford Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 1993 |
| 490 ## - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Conduct of science series |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | My map of the field ; Mythical naturalism and anemic normativism : a look at the status quo ; Reposing the naturalistic question : what is knowledge? ; Reposing the normative question : what ought knowledge be? ; Epistemic autonomy as institutionalized self-deception ; Big questions and little answers : a response to critics ; Bibliography ; Index |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Draws on recent developments in the social sciences to inform a normative approach to the philosphy of science. The author argues that philosophers of science need to take more seriously the psychological and sociological constraints on human rationality that make the production of knowledge an unavoidably imperfect enterprise. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Philosophy of Science |
| 690 ## - LOCAL SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM (OCLC, RLIN) | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | PHILOSOPHY |
| 9 (RLIN) | 7411 |
| 690 ## - LOCAL SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM (OCLC, RLIN) | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE |
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| David Adams Library (Royal Marsden) | David Adams Library (Royal Marsden) | Shelves | 07/07/2021 | W61 FUL | 0000002654 | 07/07/2021 | 07/07/2021 | Book |