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The Advancement of Science - Science Without Legend, Objectivity Without Illusions

Kitcher, Philip Presidential Professor of Philosophy, University of California, San Diego

Print publication date: 1995 (this edition)
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Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-509653-8
doi:10.1093/0195096533.003.0001

1 Legend's Legacy

Philip Kitcher

Begins with an outline of the major characteristics of the dominant conception of science offered by logical empiricism. Then explains how this view was criticized.
Keywords: empiricism, philosophy of science

doi:10.1093/0195096533.003.0001