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It may sound strange, if not heretical to suggest, as I wish to do, that there is no such thing as the rationality of science. At best we can talk about rationalities of science. Both historically and contemporarily we have used different criteria for explaining and justifying the alleged rationality of science. By giving different criteria for the justification of rationality, we ipso facto constitute different scopes for rationality.
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On the post mortem of Logical Positivism see especially: John Passmore ‘Logical Positivism’ in which he writes: “Logical Positivism, then, is dead, or as dead as a philosophical movement ever becomes.” The Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Paul Edwards, ed.), Vol. V., p. 56.
Thomas Kuhn, ‘Reflections on my Critics,’ in Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge, (Imre Lakatos, ed.), 1970, p. 235.
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Skolimowski, H. (1976). Evolutionary Rationality. In: Cohen, R.S., Hooker, C.A., Michalos, A.C., Van Evra, J.W. (eds) PSA 1974. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 32. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1449-6_9
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