| Description |
1 online resource (116 pages) |
| Series |
Science and Technology Studies |
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Science and technology studies.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; 1. Introduction; 1. Preliminaries; 2. Questions and Knowledge; 3. Questions and Answers; 4. Issues of Taxonomy; 2. Rudiments of Question Epistemology; 1. Presuppositons; 2. Formalism; 3. Issues Regarding the Legitimacy of Questions: Question Resolution; 4. Hypothetical Questions; 5. The Knowledge-Relativity of Questions; 6. Depths of Ignorance; 3. Fallibilism and the Pursuit of Truth; 1. Skepticism and Risk; 2. Fallibilism and Its Implications; 3. The Pursuit of Truth; 4. Question Dynamics; 1. Question Exfoliation |
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2. Kantâ#x80;#x99;s Principle3. Dlegitimate Questions; 5. Questions and Scientific Progress; 1. The Problem of Progress; 2. Quality Poses Problems; 3. Applicative Efficacy as the Key to Progress; 6. On Learned Ignorance; 1. Introduction; 2. The Vagaries of Vagueness; 3. Cognitive Risk; 4. Fuller Information does not Assure Safety; 5. Ignorance Can Have Its Compensations; 6. The Cognitive Life Offers No Guarantees: It is a Matter of Calculated Risks; 7. The Rationale of Rationality; 7. Against Cognitive Relativism; 1. Whatâ#x80;#x99;s Wrong with Relativism; 2. Whatâ#x80;#x99;s Right with Objectivism |
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3. Objectivity and the Circumstantial Universality of Reason4. Objectivity and the Complexity of the First Person Plural; 5. Other Cultures; 6. Abandoning Objectivity is Pragmatically Self-Defeating; 7. The Charge of Circularity; 8. Conclusion; Summary of Notation and Symbols; Name Index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351327039 |
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1351327038 |
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