Knowledge, Society and Reality: Problems of the Social Analysis of Knowledge and of Scientific Realism |
Contents
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14 | |
The Wide Sociology of Knowledge | 36 |
Critique of the Strong Program | 62 |
SOCIAL THEORY | 101 |
A Sociological Model of Scientific Discovery | 108 |
Knowledge Production and Exploitation | 122 |
Interpretation and Resistance to Scientific | 152 |
Objectivity and Truth | 169 |
Rationality | 202 |
Part III | 255 |
Experimentation Conceptual Frames | 319 |
Scientific Theories and Models | 327 |
The Structure and Development of Conceptual | 338 |
The Notion of the History of Science and its Relation | 357 |
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