In this essay I shall try to help the general reader fInd his way about the issues by sketching
in the relevant background or by pointing out the papers which do, either in this volume or in …

The Vienna Circle was a group of early twentieth-century philosophers who sought to
reconceptualize empiricism by means of their interpretation of then recent advances in the …

In this collection of essays one of the preeminent philosophers of science writing today offers
a reinterpretation of the enduring significance of logical positivism, the revolutionary …

A new direction in philosophy Between 1920 and 1940 logical empiricism reset the direction
of philosophy of science and much of the rest of Anglo-American philosophy. It began as a …

It has, on occasion, been noted that philosophers of science do not hold sociologists of
science in universally high esteem. One sociologist of science who largely escaped the …

This paper gives a critical evaluation of the philosophical presuppositions and implications
of two current schools in the sociology of knowledge: the Strong Programme of Bloor and …

Steve Fuller, Epistemology radically naturalized-recovering the normative, the experimental,
and the social - PhilPapers Sign in | Create an account PhilPapers PhilPeople PhilArchive …

European intellectual history exhibits an ambivalent attitude towards the idea of progress.
Whether there has been progress since antiquity in the art of living and practical wisdom has …

One of the difficulties facing the philosopher of science today is the divide between historical
epistemology and analytic philosophy of science. For over half a century these two traditions …

Karl Marx has written that “modern Industry… makes science a productive force distinct from
labor and presses it into the service of capital”(1867, p. 361) Moreover, according to …