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Rescuing reason : a critique of anti-rationalist views of science and knowledge / by Robert Nola.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 230.Publisher: Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [2003]Copyright date: ©2003Description: x, 559 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1402010427
  • 9781402010422
  • 1402010435
  • 9781402010439
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 501 21
LOC classification:
  • Q174 .B67 vol. 230 Q175.32.R45
Contents:
Pt. I. Knowledge, Science and the Epistemological Enterprise -- Synopsis of Part I -- Ch. 1. The Critical Tradition and Some of its Discontents -- Ch. 2. The Problem of Knowledge -- Ch. 3. Naturalism and Norms of Reason and Method -- Pt. II. The Poverty of the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge -- Synopsis of Part II -- Ch. 4. Some German Connections: Marx and Mannheim -- Ch. 5. The Edinburgh Connection I: The Strong Programme and the Social Causes of Scientific Belief -- Ch. 6. The Edinburgh Connection II: Strong and Wrong -- Ch. 7. The Wittgenstein Connection: The Social and the Rational -- Pt. III. The French Connection: Foucault -- Synopsis of Part III -- Ch. 8. An Archaeological Dig Through Foucault's Texts -- Ch. 9. Genealogy, Power and Knowledge -- Pt. IV. The German Connection: Nietzsche -- Synopsis of Part IV -- Ch. 10. Nietzsche's Genealogy of Belief and Morality -- Ch. 11. Epilogue.
Review: "The theories of method of Quine, Kuhn, Feyerabend, (amongst others) are discussed and related to the views of Marx, Foucault, Wittgenstein and Nietzsche as well as sociologists of science such as Mannheim and Bloor. The author provides a wide interpretative framework which links the doctrines espoused by many of these authors; it is argued that they inherit many of the difficulties in the Strong Programme in the sociology of "knowledge", and that they fail to reconcile the normativity of knowledge with their naturalism. It is argued that neither relativists, sceptics, nihilists, sociologists of "knowledge" nor the postmodernists successfully debunk the claims of rational explanation, far from it: these theorists presuppose much of the theory of methodology they deny."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 543-553) and index.

Pt. I. Knowledge, Science and the Epistemological Enterprise -- Synopsis of Part I -- Ch. 1. The Critical Tradition and Some of its Discontents -- Ch. 2. The Problem of Knowledge -- Ch. 3. Naturalism and Norms of Reason and Method -- Pt. II. The Poverty of the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge -- Synopsis of Part II -- Ch. 4. Some German Connections: Marx and Mannheim -- Ch. 5. The Edinburgh Connection I: The Strong Programme and the Social Causes of Scientific Belief -- Ch. 6. The Edinburgh Connection II: Strong and Wrong -- Ch. 7. The Wittgenstein Connection: The Social and the Rational -- Pt. III. The French Connection: Foucault -- Synopsis of Part III -- Ch. 8. An Archaeological Dig Through Foucault's Texts -- Ch. 9. Genealogy, Power and Knowledge -- Pt. IV. The German Connection: Nietzsche -- Synopsis of Part IV -- Ch. 10. Nietzsche's Genealogy of Belief and Morality -- Ch. 11. Epilogue.

"The theories of method of Quine, Kuhn, Feyerabend, (amongst others) are discussed and related to the views of Marx, Foucault, Wittgenstein and Nietzsche as well as sociologists of science such as Mannheim and Bloor. The author provides a wide interpretative framework which links the doctrines espoused by many of these authors; it is argued that they inherit many of the difficulties in the Strong Programme in the sociology of "knowledge", and that they fail to reconcile the normativity of knowledge with their naturalism. It is argued that neither relativists, sceptics, nihilists, sociologists of "knowledge" nor the postmodernists successfully debunk the claims of rational explanation, far from it: these theorists presuppose much of the theory of methodology they deny."--BOOK JACKET.

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