INDEX

Adorno, T. W., 171, 178-186 agricultural technology, 86-87 astrology, its relationship to medicine, 81-82

autonomy of science, 96-97

Bachelard, G., 98-100

Barkla, C. G., 78-79, 147

Bellone, E., 64

beriberi, 158-159

big science, its impact, 41-42

Bloor, D., 140

Bohm, D., 68

Bourdieu, P., 63

Boyle’s law, discovery of, 159-162

Brake Principle, 11-12, 14

Cartesian epistemology, 6, 93-94, 112 cheating in science, 40-41 citation research, 52-53, 58 closed theories, 148

Collins, H.

Compton, A. H., 78 confirmation, 17, 22-26 controversy in science, 36-40, 62-68, 112 Crane, D., 45-46

data domains, 30-31, 64, 73, 125-164, 169-171

differentiation, as a countertendency to competition, 66-69

economics, methodology of, 170-174

Edison, T. A., his status as a scientist, 85-86

Ehrenhaft, F., 117-121, 136

Einstein, A., 51

empiricism, 7-10, 16-29, 34, 109-110 explanation, 17-22; Hempelian model of,

20-22; in contrast with understanding, 166-167

Feyerabend, P., 28-29 fiction, science and, 31-33 finalization debate, 95-96

Fisher, C. S., 142-143

Fleck, L., 121-122, 147-149 floppy-eared rabbits, 158 free will, 165-166

Galileo, 28, 32, 80, 134, 159 game theory, 5-6

Gay, H., 147, 163

Gilbert, G. N., 66

Goodman, N., 153-154 gravity waves, 135-136

Hanson, N. R., 35

Heisenberg, W., 148

Hempel, C. G., 20-22

Holton, G., 109, 117, 154

Hume, D., 24

Husserl, E., 13

ideal types, 174-175 ideology, and norms in science, 37-40 instrumentalism, 30

instruments, scientific, 34, 49-51, 57-61, 87-88, 128-136, 168-169

integers, 144 internal history of science, its adequacy, 89-96

invariant theory, 142-143

IQ controversy, 91-92

Kepler, J., 90-91

Klein, J., 140

Kuhn, T. S., 26-30, 42-55, 62-68, 94, 98, 110, 114, 137, 142-143, 163-164

Lakatos, I., 110, 114, 138-139, 147, 163 language, its correspondence to the world, 12-15, 30-31, 136-137, 143-148 language of science, 100-104, 136-137 laser development and operation, 135 Latour, B., 122-124, 144, 147 Lavoisier, A., 104-106

Levi, I., 5

logic, empirical content of, 25-26

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Martin, B., 39

Marxist class theory, 172-174 mathematical knowledge, analysis of, 3­

4, 13-14, 52, 138-146 medicine, its relationship to astrology,

81-82

Mendel, G., 108

Merton, R. K., 36-39

Millikan, R.

neoclassical economics, contrasted with physics, 171-172

Neptune, discovery of, 145-146, 156

Newcomb’s puzzle, 6

Newton, I., 8, 50, 136, 148-149, 155, 159

objectivity, science and, 30-31, 40-41, 128-129

paradigms, Kuhn’s treatment of, 43-50, 54-55, 80-81, 141

parapsychology, 75-77

parity conservation, overthrow of, 162­163

Pasteur, L., 79-80

phenomenology, 13 phlogiston theory, 104-106

phrenology, the debate over, 92-93 Plato, 3-4, 13-14

polycentrism, 55-57

Popper, K. R., 6, 23, 29, 62, 94, 114, 126, 137, 163, 171, 178-186

positivism, 16-20, 28, 50, 77 positivist dispute, 178-186 postparadigmatic science, the possibility

of, 95-96

Priestley, J., 104-106

problem solving, and progress in sci­ence, 72-73

progress in science, 34, 49-51, 53-54, 58,

70-72, 150-164

pure science, 83-88, 91-96

quantum theory, 49-51, 155-156 radical theory, 161-162 rationalism, 7-15, 28, 109-110 rationality, analysis of, 4-6 Ravetz, J. R., 38, 94, 113-117, 121 realism, 30, 116 reduction, 152-153 relationships between scientific disci­

plines, 57-62

relativity theory, 51 research groups, and the structure of sci­

ence, 42-62 revolutions, as part of scientific history,

50-51, 54-55, 68-70

Ronchi, V., 100

science: as a search problem, 70-71, its relationship to technology, 84-87, 96 science policy, 94-95

scientific facts, instruments as a basis for,

34, 117-120 skepticism, 3 social structure of science, 6, 35-73 Sraffa, P., 172-173 sufficient reason, principle of, 90

technology, its relationship to science,

84-87, 96

telescope, as creating a data domain, 134 textual interpretation, science and, 33,

37, 62-63, 111, 141-142 themata, 154-155 theory-laden observation, 31-33 type theory, 161-162

understanding, contrasted with explana­tion, 166-167

valence theory, 161-162 verstehen, 174-177

Watson, J. D., 38

Weber, M., 174-177

Whitley, R., 41

Wittgenstein, L., 69

Woolgar, S., 122-124, 144, 147