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Essay Review: Scientific Pluralism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Jordi Cat
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Abstract

The basic education of philosophers of science during the second half of the twentieth century was founded on the seven Rs: the three basic Rs and the topics of Rationality, Realism, Reductionism, and Relativism. The topic and ideas in this volume are foundational and challenging. They challenge and replace the ancient notion of philosophy as unified knowledge and the corresponding images of the tree of knowledge and encyclopedia forests.

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Review Article
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 79 , Issue 2 , April 2012 , pp. 317 - 325
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Copyright © The Philosophy of Science Association

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