Philosophy Of Science And Its Discontents - 2nd edition

"...Readers who have not already caught up with t he first edition can look forward to a radical proposal about how one ought to study science. The second edition of this book provides new readers with a significant advantage over the first....What he tries to do in this book is nevertheless impressive. The breadth and scope of his analysis, and the sheer range of literature on which he draws, make this the kind of book from which one cannot fail to profit, no matter how dubious one might be about aspects of the argument. It is, I think, a 'must read' for anyone working in science studies."

--Social Studies of Science

"The most important and exciting recent development in the philosophy of science is its merging with the sociology of scientific knowledge. Here is the first text book to make this development available. It belongs as a second t ext in every course of philosophy of science, whether taught in a philosophy department, or as a part of the scientific method teaching in psychology, political science, sociology, economics, etc. While the title does not signal this, it also belongs in every sociology of science course."

--Donald T. Campbell, Ph.D., Past President, American Psychological Association, Member, National Academy of Sciences, Division 53, Social and Political Sciences

"Pithy, provocative, contentious...Characteristically, the book exudes energy and great ambition, the exposition moving rapidly across a wide intellectual terrain...revitalizing long--standing philosophical debates."

--Times Higher Education Supplement (on the first edition)

Publisher Web Site, October, 2004

1. My Map of the Field

2. Mythical Naturalism and Anemic Normativism: A Look at the Status Quo

3. Reposing the Naturalistic Question: What Is Knowledge?

4. Reposing the Normative Question: What Ought Knowledge Be?

Coda: Epistemic Autonomy as Institutionalized Self-Deception

Postscript: Big Questions and Little Answers--A Response to Critics