Giere, Ronald N. (Author)
University of Chicago Press
Physical Details: 151 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English
Description The author uses the example of color vision in humans to illustrate how his theory of “perspectivism” works. (from the publisher)
Review Radick, Gregory (2009) Review of "Scientific Perspectivism". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 206).
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