Stages in the Empirical Programme of Relativism

Social Studies of Science

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1981, Pages 3-10

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EID: 84977216455     PISSN: 03063127     EISSN: 14603659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/030631278101100101     Document Type: Article

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1. Among the philosophers who have contributed, not always intentionally, to this new view are Stephen Toulmin (see, for example, Human Understanding [Ox ford : Clarendon Press, 1972])
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17. Barry Barnes, in his Scientific Knowledge and Sociological Theory (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1974)
18. see also H. M. Collins and G. Cox, ‘Recovering Relativity: Did Prophecy Fail?’, Social Studies of Science, Vol. 6 (1976), 423-44.
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39. M. J. Mulkay's article, ‘Norms and Ideology in Science’, Social Science In formation, Vol. 15 (1976), 637-56
40. H. M. Collins, ‘The Role of the Core-Set in Modern Science: Social Contingency With Methodological Propriety in Discovery’, History of Science, Vol. 19 (March 1981), in press.