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Science and Relativism: Some Key Controversies in the Philosophy of Science

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This provocative book presents spirited debates about the philosophy of science from positivist, realist, pragmatist, and relativist perspectives.

In recent years, many members of the intellectual community have embraced a radical relativism regarding knowledge in general and scientific knowledge in particular, holding that Kuhn, Quine, and Feyerabend have knocked the traditional picture of scientific knowledge into a cocked hat. Is philosophy of science, or mistaken impressions of it, respo...