The “Strong Programme”, Normativity, and Social Causes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8975403 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Chris Calvert-Minor (0000-0002-2695-7519, Syracuse University, corresponding author), CHRIS CALVERT‐MINOR |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-22 |
| Publication date | 2008-02-05 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8308 • E-ISSN: 1468-5914 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-5914.2008.00355.x |
| OpenAlex | W2079481070 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 33 |
Barry Barnes and David Bloor of the Strong Programme of the sociology of knowledge advance a naturalized epistemology that reduces all accounts of normativity to social causes. I endorse their program of naturalizing one kind of normativity, but I argue that there is another kind they cannot naturalize. Within the context of sociological explanations of rationality, there are (1) norms of rationality instantiated by scientists that Barnes and Bloor study, and (2) Barnes and Bloor's own normative ascriptions of scientists as rational beings. I argue that Barnes and Bloor successfully justify their naturalization of the norms of rationality of the scientists they describe by a methodological caution and arguments from under‐determination and finitism. But they inevitably fail to naturalize their own normative ascriptions of those scientists as rational
Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Naturalization · Normative · Rationality · Sociology · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science
Beyond positivism and relativism
Scientific knowledge
Science and the Sociology of Knowledge
The Rational and the Social in the History of Science
Wittgenstein, Rules and Institutions
Wittgenstein
The Runabout Inference-Ticket
Falsification and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes
Knowledge and social imagery
What the Tortoise Said to Achilles
Epistemology Naturalized
The Sociology of Reasons
Ordinary Human Inference as Refutation of the Strong Programme
Interests and Explanation in the Social Study of Science
On the 'Hows' and 'Whys' of Cultural Change (Response to Woolgar)
On the Sociology of Science and the Continuing Importance of Epistemologically Couched Accounts
Ordinary Human Inference as Material for the Sociology of Knowledge
II.2 The Strengths of the Strong Programme
Reasons, Causes, and the 'Strong Programme' in the Sociology of Knowledge
II.1 The Pseudo-Science of Science
Durkheim and Mauss revisited
What's within? Nativism Reconsidered
Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics
Rethinking the “strong programme” in the sociology of knowledge
The Fate of Knowledge
Remember the Strong Program
Scientific Knowledge and Sociological Theory
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2014 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |