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Scientific Pluralism Reconsidered Stephanie Ruphy

Scientific Pluralism Reconsidered By Stephanie Ruphy

Scientific Pluralism Reconsidered by Stephanie Ruphy


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It focuses on the methodological, epistemic, and metaphysical commitments of various philosophical attitudes surrounding monism and pluralism, and offers novel perspectives and pluralist theses on scientific methods and objects, reductionism, plurality of representations, natural kinds, and scientific classifications.

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Scientific Pluralism Reconsidered: A New Approach to the (Dis)Unity of Science by Stephanie Ruphy

Can we expect our scientific theories to make up a unified structure, or do they form a kind of patchwork whose pieces remain independent from each other? Does the proliferation of sometimes-incompatible representations of the same phenomenon compromise the ability of science to deliver reliable knowledge? Is there a single correct way to classify things that science should try to discover, or is taxonomic pluralism here to stay? These questions are at the heart of philosophical debate on the unity or plurality of science, one of the most central issues in philosophy of science today. This book offers a critical overview and a new structure of this debate. It focuses on the methodological, epistemic, and metaphysical commitments of various philosophical attitudes surrounding monism and pluralism, and offers novel perspectives and pluralist theses on scientific methods and objects, reductionism, plurality of representations, natural kinds, and scientific classifications.

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Scientific Pluralism Reconsidered is a pleasing culmination of Stephanie Ruphy's pioneering and underappreciated philosophical work. She gives careful and sympathetic critiques of various monist and pluralist positions and advances her own synthesis of 'foliated pluralism' supported by perceptive and measured arguments. This book deserves to be read by all practice-oriented philosophers of science. -Hasok Chang, University of Cambridge

Ruphy offers the first comprehensive introduction to debates about pluralism in philosophy of science. She succeeds not only in providing a clear overview of the field but also in advancing current debates about the methodological and ontological dimensions of scientific pluralism. This outstanding book will become an indispensable resource for students and researchers alike. -David Ludwig, VU University Amsterdam

About Stephanie Ruphy

Stephanie Ruphy is professor of philosophy of science and head of the research laboratory PPL (Philosophy, Pratices, and Langages) at Universite Grenoble Alpes in France. She is also president of the Societe de philosophie des sciences.

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CIN0822944588G
9780822944584
0822944588
Scientific Pluralism Reconsidered: A New Approach to the (Dis)Unity of Science by Stephanie Ruphy
Used - Good
Hardback
University of Pittsburgh Press
20170131
208
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