Wittgenstein and Scientific Knowledge: A Sociological Perspective

✍ Scribed by Derek L. Phillips (auth.)

Publisher: Macmillan Education UK
Year: 1977
Tongue: English
Leaves: 262
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Wittgenstein the Man....Pages 1-19
The ‘Early’ and ‘Later’ Wittgenstein....Pages 20-54
Two Images of Science....Pages 55-73
Relativism and Wittgenstein....Pages 74-92
Paradigms and Incommensurability....Pages 93-118
The Social Nature of Mathematics....Pages 119-141
The Demarcation Problem in Science....Pages 142-168
Possibilities and Persuasion....Pages 169-198
Doubt and Certainty....Pages 199-222
Back Matter....Pages 223-248

✦ Subjects

Epistemology

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