COGNITIVE SCIENCE OF SCIENCE: THE WAVE
OF THE FUTURE OR A BLAST FROM THE PAST?
Reply to Bookstein, Catania, Hardcastle, Roitblat,
Shafto, Slater & van Brakel on Scientific-Cognition

Abstract

As someone who was identified (correctly) as skeptical of the project outlined in Giere (1992), I argue that a Cognitive Science of Science was desirable a half-century ago, when the logical positivists first proposed something like it, but is now an anachronism -- a point implicitly realized by some of the contributors and reviewers. I stress the need to examine the socio- historical circumstances that make grand synthetic projects like Giere's appear attractive.

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