Scientific recognition in a sociocultural context -- Structure of the theoretical knowledge -- The foundations of science -- Genesis of theoretical knowledge in classical science -- Formation and development of theory in non-classical science -- Scientific revolutions -- Strategies of theoretical investigation in the epoch of post-non-classical science
Summary
"In the book Theoretical Knowledge by V. Stepin, an original conception of a structure and dynamics of scientific knowledge is proposed. A detailed analysis of the foundations of science performed by the author allowed him to develop new ideas and approaches, to demonstrate how sociocultural factors are incorporated in the process of yielding of new theories. He shows direct and inverse links between foundations of science and new theories and empirical facts evolved from those, how among many potentially possible histories of science a culture selects just those directions which become a real history of science."--Jacket
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-394) and index
Notes
Translated from the Russian: Teoreticheskoe znanie, 2000
