Review: Kitcher and the Achievement of Science [Book Review]

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 55 (3):629 - 636 (1995)
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Abstract

Perhaps, the best way to approach a book with as broad a scope and as great an ambition as Philip Kitcher’s The Advancement of Science is to think about its main goal. What vision is it trying to convey? Is it a worthy vision? Later one can ask how well it was done.

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