A collection of essays on fundamental issues regarding scientific knowledge. Contents: Systematic Essays: Science and the Epistemic Authority of Logical Analysis, Jay F. Rosenberg; Varieties of Understanding, Robert Brandom; Theory Families, Plausibility and the Defense of Modest Realism, Rom Harre; Scientific Rationality and Its Reconstruction, Jurgen Mittelstrass; Conservatism and the Data Base, William Lycan. Historical Essays: Darwin's Achievement, Philip Kitcher; "A Purely Scientific Temper": Victorian Expressions of the Ideal of an Autonomous Science, Robert E. Butts.
- ISBN10 081914763X
- ISBN13 9780819147639
- Publish Date 11 July 1985 (first published 18 June 1985)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 27 January 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University Press of America
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 227
- Language English