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 …

Recently, many historians of science have chosen to present their historical narratives from
the 'actors'-eye view'. Scientific knowledge not available within the actors' culture is not …

This paper argues for a novel way of addressing questions about the relationship between
politics and science: in terms of norms of communication, rather than norms of cognition. The …

Scientific Philosophy: Origins and Development is the first Yearbook of the Vienna Circle
Institute, which was founded in October 1991. The book contains original contributions to an …

What differentiates scientific research from non-scientific inquiry? Philosophers addressing
this question have typically been inspired by the exalted social place and intellectual …

Philosophers have too often focused on the narrowly intellectual aspects of science.... In this
context it is easy to forget that scientific research is also a deeply practical activity.... Even …

" The Invention of Modern Science proposes a fruitful way of going beyond the apparently
irreconcilable positions, that science is either" objective" or" socially constructed." Instead …