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  1. The self-vindication of the laboratory sciences.Ian Hacking - 1992 - In Andrew Pickering (ed.), Science as practice and culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. pp. 29--64.
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  • Historical epistemology.Lorraine Daston - 1994 - In James K. Chandler, Arnold Ira Davidson & Harry D. Harootunian (eds.), Questions of evidence: proof, practice, and persuasion across the disciplines. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. pp. 282--289.
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  • Introduction.James A. Secord - 1993 - British Journal for the History of Science 26 (4):387-389.
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  • Rationality and relativism.Martin Hollis & Steven Lukes (eds.) - 1982 - Cambridge: MIT Press.
    The contributors represent the complete spectrum of positions between a relativism that challenges the very concept of a single world and the idea that there are ascertainable, objective universals.
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  • (1 other version)What is Relativism?Paul Boghossian - 2006 - In Patrick Greenough & Michael Patrick Lynch (eds.), Truth and realism. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 13--37.
    Many philosophers, however, have been tempted to be relativists about specific domains of discourse, especially about those domains that have a normative character. Gilbert Harman, for example, has defended a relativistic view of morality, Richard Rorty a relativistic view of epistemic justification, and Crispin Wright a relativistic view of judgments of taste.¹ But what exactly is it to be a relativist about a given domain of discourse? The term ‘‘relativism’’ has, of course, been used in a bewildering variety of senses (...)
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  • How inevitable are the results of successful science?Ian Hacking - 2000 - Philosophy of Science 67 (3):71.
    Obviously we could have failed to be successful scientists. But a serious question lurks beneath the banal one stated in my title. If the results of a scientific investigation are correct, would any investigation of roughly the same subject matter, if successful, at least implicitly contain or imply the same results? Using examples ranging from immunology to high-energy physics, the paper presents the cases for both positive and negative answers. The paper is deliberately non-conclusive, arguing that the question is one (...)
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  • Eloge: Alistair Cameron Crombie, 4 November 1915-9 February 1996.Robert Fox - 1997 - Isis 88 (1):183-186.
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  • Aurora, Nemesis and Clio.J. R. R. Christie - 1993 - British Journal for the History of Science 26 (4):391-405.
    This essay offers some preliminary and general considerations of big picture historiography of science, attempting an introductory specification of the topic by means of narratological analysis. It takes no strong, substantive position eitherpro or contrabig pictures themselves, preferring an approach which is more diagnostic and heuristic in nature. After considering what may be meant by a term such as ‘big picture’ and its cognates, it interrogates the kind of desire which could lie behind the wish expressed by the conference title (...)
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  • De-centring the ‘big picture’: The Origins of Modern Science and the modern origins of science.Andrew Cunningham & Perry Williams - 1993 - British Journal for the History of Science 26 (4):407-432.
    Like it or not, a big picture of the history of science is something which we cannot avoid. Big pictures are, of course, thoroughly out of fashion at the moment; those committed to specialist research find them simplistic and insufficiently complex and nuanced, while postmodernists regard them as simply impossible. But however specialist we may be in our research, however scornful of the immaturity of grand narratives, it is not so easy to escape from dependence – acknowledged or not – (...)
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  • Language, truth and reason.Ian Hacking - 1982 - In Martin Hollis & Steven Lukes (eds.), Rationality and relativism. Cambridge: MIT Press. pp. 48--66.
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  • Discipline and Bounding: The History and Sociology of Science as Seen through the Externalism-Internalism Debate.Steven Shapin - 1992 - History of Science 30 (4):333-369.
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  • Reflexivity, Relativism, Microhistory: Three Desiderata for Historical Epistemologies. [REVIEW]Martin Kusch - 2011 - Erkenntnis 75 (3):483-494.
    This paper tries to motivate three desiderata for historical epistemologies: (a) that they should be reflective about the pedigree of their conceptual apparatus; (b) that they must face up to the potentially relativistic consequences of their historicism; and (c) that they must not forget the hard-won lessons of microhistory (i.e. historical events must be explained causally; historical events must not be artificially divided into internal/intellectual and external/social “factors” or “levels”; and constructed series of homogenous events must not be treated as (...)
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  • The Disunities of the Sciences.Ian Hacking - 1996 - In Peter Galison & David Stump (eds.). pp. 37-74.
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  • To save the phenomena, an essay on the idea of physical theory from Plato to Galileo.Pierre Duhem - 1969 - Chicago,: University of Chicago Press.
    Duhem's 1908 essay questions the relation between physical theory and metaphysics and, more specifically, between astronomy and physics–an issue still of importance today. He critiques the answers given by Greek thought, Arabic science, medieval Christian scholasticism, and, finally, the astronomers of the Renaissance.
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  • Styles of Scientific Thinking in the European Tradition.Alistair Crombie & Jane Maienschein - 1996 - History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 18 (3):363.
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  • The scientific revolution.John A. Schuster - 1989 - In R. C. Olby, G. N. Cantor, J. R. R. Christie & M. J. S. Hodge (eds.), Companion to the History of Modern Science. Routledge. pp. 217--242.
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  • If P , then what? Thinking in cases.John Forrester - 1996 - History of the Human Sciences 9 (3):1-25.
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  • (1 other version)Historicism.Frederick Beiser - 2007 - In Brian Leiter & Michael Rosen (eds.), The Oxford handbook of continental philosophy. New York: Oxford University Press.
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  • (1 other version)Truth and Truthfulness: An Essay in Genealogy.Ian Hacking - 2004 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 34 (1):137-148.
    Bernard Williams’ last book is the most interesting set of reflections on the values of truth and truth-telling in living memory. Its grasp of philosophical arguments is astonishing. In many cases it is rightly speedy: Three lines to set up an argument, two to demolish it, three to revive it, a total of perhaps thirty lines to set the whole matter to rights. The book manages to be both learned and passionate without being pretentious. And of course witty; some will (...)
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  • Objectivity and Historiography.Martin Kusch - 2009 - Isis 100 (1):127-131.
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  • Rule-scepticism and the sociology of scientific knowledge: The Bloor-Lynch debate revisited.Martin Kusch - 2004 - Social Studies of Science 34:571-591.
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  • Folk biology and the anthropology of science: Cognitive universals and cultural particulars.Scott Atran - 1998 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 21 (4):547-569.
    This essay in the "anthropology of science" is about how cognition constrains culture in producing science. The example is folk biology, whose cultural recurrence issues from the very same domain-specific cognitive universals that provide the historical backbone of systematic biology. Humans everywhere think about plants and animals in highly structured ways. People have similar folk-biological taxonomies composed of essence-based species-like groups and the ranking of species into lower- and higher-order groups. Such taxonomies are not as arbitrary in structure and content, (...)
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  • (1 other version)Les Origines de la Statique.P. Duhem - 1905 - Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale 13 (6):6-7.
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  • (1 other version)Metaphysical déjà vu.Martin Kusch - 2002 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 33 (3):639-647.
    Ian Hacking, Hacking and Latour on science studies and metaphysics: The Social Construction of What?Harvard University Press, ISBN 0-674-81200-X Bruno Latour, Pandora's Hope: Essays on the Reality of Science StudiesHarvard University Press, ISBN0-67-465336-X.
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  • (1 other version)Critical Notice.Ian Hacking - 2004 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 34 (1):137-148.
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  • The Scientific Revolution.A. Schuster - 1989 - In R. C. Olby, G. N. Cantor, J. R. R. Christie & M. J. S. Hodge (eds.), Companion to the History of Modern Science. Routledge.
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  • Introduction»: 3-12.M. Hollis & S. Lukes - 1982 - In Martin Hollis & Steven Lukes (eds.), Rationality and relativism. Cambridge: MIT Press.
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  • (1 other version)[Book Review: Historical Ontology]. [REVIEW]Muhammad Ali Khalidi - 2003 - Philosophy of Science 70 (2):449-452.
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  • (1 other version)To Save the Phenomena: An Essay on the Idea of Physical Theory from Plato to Galileo.Pierre Duhem, Edmund Doland & Chaninah Maschler - 1970 - Philosophy 45 (174):344-346.
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  • (1 other version)Metaphysical deja vu: Hacking and Latour on science studies and metaphysics - the social construction of what? Ian Hacking; Harvard university press, cambridge, mass. And London, England, 1999, pp. X+261, price £18.50 hardback, ISBN 0-674-81200-X.Pandora's hope: Essays on the reality of science studies Bruno Latour; Harvard university press, cambridge, mass. And London, England, 1999, pp. X+324, price £12.50, $19.95 paperback, ISBN 0-67-465336-X, £27.95, $45.00 hardback, ISBN 0-67-465335-. [REVIEW]M. Kusch - 2002 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 33 (3):639-647.
    Ian Hacking, Hacking and Latour on science studies and metaphysics: The Social Construction of What?Harvard University Press, ISBN 0-674-81200-X Bruno Latour, Pandora's Hope: Essays on the Reality of Science StudiesHarvard University Press, ISBN0-67-465336-X.
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  • Styles of Reasoning in Early to mid-Victorian Life Research: Analysis:Synthesis and Palaetiology.James Elwick - 2007 - Journal of the History of Biology 40 (1):35-69.
    To better understand the work of pre-Darwinian British life researchers in their own right, this paper discusses two different styles of reasoning. On the one hand there was analysis:synthesis, where an organism was disintegrated into its constituent parts and then reintegrated into a whole; on the other hand there was palaetiology, the historicist depiction of the progressive specialization of an organism. This paper shows how each style allowed for development, but showed it as moving in opposite directions. In analysis:synthesis, development (...)
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  • Testimony and the Value of Knowledge.Martin Kusch - 2009 - In Adrian Haddock, Alan Millar & Duncan Pritchard (eds.), Epistemic value. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 60--94.
    This chapter gives substance to the idea of a ‘communitarian value-driven epistemology’ by developing and combining ideas from Edward Craig's and Bernard Williams' ‘epistemic genealogy’ and Barry Barnes' and Steven Shapin's ‘sociology of knowledge’. In order to make transparent how this project might slot into more familiar, or more mainstream, projects, the paper maintains throughout a critical dialogue with Jon Kvanvig's position. The chapter is structured around an attempt to defend Craig's position against Kvanvig's criticisms: by treating the institution of (...)
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  • Essay Review: Rational Artistry, Styles of Scientific Thinking in the European Tradition: The History of Argument and Explanation Especially in the Mathematical and Biomedical Sciences and ArtsStyles of Scientific Thinking in the European Tradition: The History of Argument and Explanation especially in the Mathematical and Biomedical Sciences and Arts. CrombieAlistair . Pp. xxxii + 2456. £180.Rob Iliffe - 1998 - History of Science 36 (3):329-357.
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  • Styles of Scientific Thinking in the European Tradition: The History of Argument and Explanation Especially in the Mathematical and Biomedical Sciences and Arts by A. C. Crombie. [REVIEW]Roger Ariew - 1995 - Isis 86:82-83.
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  • Ian Hacking, Historical ontology.Muhammad Ali Khalidi - 2005 - Revue d'Histoire des Sciences 58 (2):449-452.
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  • Styles of Reasoning in Early to Mid-Victorian Life Research: Analysis: Synthesis and Palaetiology. [REVIEW]James Elwick - 2006 - Journal of the History of Biology 40 (1):35 - 69.
    To better understand the work of pre-Darwinian British life researchers in their own right, this paper discusses two different styles of reasoning. On the one hand there was analysis:synthesis, where an organism was disintegrated into its constituent parts and then reintegrated into a whole; on the other hand there was palaetiology, the historicist depiction of the progressive specialization of an organism. This paper shows how each style allowed for development, but showed it as moving in opposite directions. In analysis:synthesis, development (...)
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