SSK's Demasking of the Scientific Knowledge——Evaluating Knowledge and Social Imagery Written by David Bloor
LU Yan-jun
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LU Yan-jun
Abstract
As the research program supporting SSK,the strong program's four principles explain the causes of scientific knowledge from the perspective of relativism. Although the relativism standpoint of SSK suffers some criticism,its practice has the important theoretical significance,which emphasizes investigating human cognitive activities from the social dimension and highlights the social factors of scientific knowledge.
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As the research program supporting SSK,the strong program's four principles explain the causes of scientific knowledge from the perspective of relativism. Although the relativism standpoint of SSK suffers some criticism,its practice has the important theoretical significance,which emphasizes investigating human cognitive activities from the social dimension and highlights the social factors of scientific knowledge.
Key concepts: Relativism, Epistemology, Perspective (graphical), Social knowledge, Sociology of scientific knowledge, Criticism, Dimension (graph theory), Psychology