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(1997) Issues and images in the philosophy of science, Dordrecht, Springer.
Against postmodernism and the "new" philosophy of science
Nietzsche's image of science in the light of art
Babette Babich
pp. 27-45
In what follows I offer a polemical - and inevitably elliptical - review of the current state of the philosophy of science and argue for a radically hermeneutic philosophy of science, following Nietzsche's recognition that although science represents the fulfilment of the modern project of a self-grounding ground, the problem of science as such cannot be posed on its own ground. Yet I am aware that some readers will find the following closer to a sociology of science and knowledge as an argument for the recognition of historical factors (though I focus on no specifically social categories and employ no sociological concepts) than to a critique of the philosophy of science. I have neither the competence for nor the intention of offering either such a sociology of knowledge or a history of science. What I will do is to challenge the kind of conceptualizing fetishism - an Aristotelian legacy -that would make such distinctions to the detriment of the critical scope proper to philosophic thought.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-5788-9_3
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Babich, B. (1997)., Against postmodernism and the "new" philosophy of science: Nietzsche's image of science in the light of art, in D. Ginev & R. S. Cohen (eds.), Issues and images in the philosophy of science, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 27-45.
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