I first commend Tom Gieryn for engaging what I would prefer to call the interpretive/
constructive (I/C) sociology of science in a critical discussion." As far as I am aware, his is the …

This paper locates the discussion around the finalization thesis in a broader science policy
context, linking it to the recent discourse on a changing science-society contract. It is argued …

''I didn't start my research thinking that I would increase the storage capacity of hard drives.
The final landscape is never visible from the starting point''. This statement made by the …

I have been always most moved by those whose views I have ended up opposing. I say
'ended up'because the views are typically ones in which I originally invested considerable …

Philosophy of Science and Its Discontents Page 1 Philosophy of Science and Its Discontents
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Philosophy of science emerged as a distinctive part of philosophy in the twentieth century. It
set its own agenda, the systematic study of the metaphysical and epistemological …

In this article, I address the question of whether science can and should be seen as a
common good. For this purpose, the first section focuses on the notion of (scientific) …

The four papers in this issue illustrate both the extent of mutual entanglement between
history of science and philosophy of science and the difficulty of achieving consensus on …

This volume is a serious attempt to open up the subject of European philosophy of science
to real thought, and provide the structural basis for the interdisciplinary development of its …

Logical empiricism, a program for the study of science that attempted to provide logical
analyses of the nature of scientific concepts, the relation between evidence and theory, and …