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3Science Naturalized, Science Denatured: An Evaluation of Ronald Giere's Cognitivist Approach to Explaining ScienceHistory and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 13 (2). 1991.Ronald Giere and others aspire to 'naturalize science' by examining scientific activity as they would any other natural phenomenon — scientifically. Giere aims to fashion a theory of science that is naturalistic, realistic, and evolutionary, and to thus carve for himself a niche between foundationalist philosophies of science (positing abstract criteria of rationality) on the one hand, and relativist sociologies of science on the other. Giere's approach is appealing because it allows that scienc…Read more
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Trouble-Shooting Creativity: A Critical Appraisal of David Bohm and F. David Peat's' Science Orders & Creativity'. A review of Science Order & Creativity (review)History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 16 (1): 141-154. 1994.
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Tel Aviv UniversityThe Cohn Institute For History And Philosophy of Science And IdeasRetired faculty
Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
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