Scientific Objectivity and Its Contexts
The first part of this book is of an epistemological nature and develops an original theory of scientific objectivity, understood in a weak sense (as intersubjective agreement among the specialists) and a strong sense (as having precise concrete referents
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Scientific Objectivity and Its Contexts
Scientific Objectivity and Its Contexts
Evandro Agazzi
Scientific Objectivity and Its Contexts
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Evandro Agazzi School of Medicine, Bioethics Department Universidad Panamericana Mexico City Mexico
ISBN 978-3-319-04659-4 ISBN 978-3-319-04660-0 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-04660-0 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London
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To Lulú whose loving insistence has urged me to conclude this long-awaited work
Foreword
This work has a long history, so long that it well warrants being considered my life’s work. In my book in the philosophy of physics in Italian, Temi e problemi di filosofia della fisica, which was published in 1969, I presented a theory of scientific objectivity which succeeded in attracting the attention of a number of scholars at that time, including, for example, Marian Przelecky, Riszard Wóycicki and Marja Kokoszynska in Poland and Carl Hempel in the United States. That book, however, was born under an unlucky star, its publisher becoming insolvent soon after its publication. And, though the unsold copies were acquired by another publisher and put
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