Scientific Objectivity and Its Contexts

• Main Author: Agazzi, Evandro (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Ethics.; Philosophy and science.; Philosophy of nature.; Mathematical logic.; Physics.; Philosophy of Science.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.; Mathematical Logic and Foundations.; Philosophy of Nature.

The first part of this book is of an epistemological nature and develops an original theory of scientific objectivity, understood in a weak sense (as intersubjective agreement among the specialists) and a strong sense (as having precise concrete referents). In both cases it relies upon the adoption...

Table of Contents:

• Historical and Philosophical Background
• The Characterisation of Objectivity
• First Corollaries in the Philosophy of Science
• The Ontological Commitment of Science
• Scientific Realism
• The Contexts of Objectivity
• Corollaries in the Philosophy of Science
• Scientific Truth Revisited
• The Context of Making Science
• Science and Metaphysics
• Appendix
• References
• Indexes.