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Group Rationality in Scientific Research - Hardcover

Husain Sarkar

 
9780521871136: Group Rationality in Scientific Research
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0521871131 ISBN 13: 9780521871136
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2007

Synopsis

Under what conditions is a group of scientists rational? How would rational scientists collectively agree to make their group more effective? What sorts of negotiations would occur among them and under what conditions? What effect would their final agreement have on science and society? These questions have been central to the philosophy of science for the last two decades. In this 2007 book, Husain Sarkar proposes answers to them by building on classical solutions - the skeptical view, two versions of the subjectivist view, the objectivist view, and the view of Hilary Putnam. Although he finds these solutions not completely adequate, Sarkar retrieves what is of value from them and also expropriates the arguments of John Rawls and Amartya Sen, in order to weave a richer, deeper, and more developed theory of group rationality.

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About the Author

Husain Sarkar is professor of philosophy at Louisiana State University. A recipient of LSU's Distinguished Faculty Research Award, he is the author of Descartes' Cogito: Saved from the Great Shipwreck.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2007
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521871131
ISBN 13 
9780521871136
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
302