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The Study of Controversies and the Theory and History of Science

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 September 2008

Marcelo Dascal
Marcelo Dascal
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Faculty of HumanitiesTel Aviv University
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These introductory remarks are unorthodox in many respects. The deviance from usual practice is justified by the extreme importance I attach to the subject matter of this special issue. I want to convey to the reader a sense of why I think controversies, particularly in science, are so crucial, and to propose a different way of thinking about them. This mandates, in the limited space available, a compact presentation, omitting supporting arguments and necessary elaboration — for which the reader is referred to the bibliography.

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Science in Context , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , Summer 1998 , pp. 147 - 154
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998

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