Book ID: CBB001422479

Scientific Controversies: A Socio-Historical Perspective on the Advancement of Science (2015)

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Raynaud, Dominique (Author)


Transaction Publishers


Publication Date: 2015
Edition Details: Translated by Lisa C. Chien
Physical Details: xxii + 298 pp.; bibl.; index
Language: English

In Scientific Controversies, Dominque Raynaud shows how organized debates in the sciences help us establish or verify our knowledge of the world. If debates focus on form, scientific controversies are akin to public debates that can be understood within the framework of theories of conflict. If they focus on content, then such controversies have to do with a specific activity and address the nature of science itself. Understanding the major focus of a scientific controversy is a first step toward understanding these debates and assessing their merits Controversies of unique socio-historic context, disciplines, and characteristics are examined: Pasteur's germ theory and Pouchet's theory of spontaneous generation; vitalism advocated at Montpellier versus experimental medicine in Paris; the science of optics about the propagation of visual rays; the origins of relativism (the Duhem-Quine problem). Touching on the work of Boudon, Popper, and others, Raynaud puts forward an incrementalist theory about the advancement of science through scientific controversies. The debates Raynaud has selected share in common their pivotal importance to the history of the sciences. By understanding the role of controversy, we better understand the functioning of science and the stakes of the contemporary scientific debates.

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Authors & Contributors
Strick, James E.
Shaw, Jamie
Antonio Piccolomini d'Aragona
Michael Marshall
Walloch, Karen L.
Tognotti, Eugenia
Concepts
Controversies and disputes
Biogenesis; origin of life; spontaneous generation
Science and society
Biology
Medicine
Public opinion
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
20th century, early
18th century
17th century
Places
Italy
France
Great Britain
Americas
United States
Germany
Institutions
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
Harvard University
European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
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