Scientific objectivity and its contexts / Evandro Agazzi.
The first part of this book is of an epistemological nature and develops an original theory of scientific objectivity, understood in a weak sense (as intersubjective agreement among the specialists) and a strong sense (as having precise concrete referents). In both cases it relies upon the adoption...
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Table of Contents:
- Historical and Philosophical Background
- The Characterisation of Objectivity
- First Corollaries in the Philosophy of Science
- The Ontological Commitment of Science
- Scientific Realism
- The Contexts of Objectivity
- Corollaries in the Philosophy of Science
- Scientific Truth Revisited
- The Context of Making Science
- Science and Metaphysics.