Scientific controversies : philosophical and historical perspectives / edited by Peter Machamer, Marcello Pera, and Aristedes Baltas.

New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.

x, 278 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Patterns of scientific controversies / Philip Kitcher -- Classifying scientific controversies / Aristedes Baltas -- Rhetoric and scientific controversies / Marcello Pera -- On the cognitive analysis of scientific controversies / Richard E. Grandy -- The concept of the individual and the idea(l) of method in seventeenth-century natural philosophy / Peter Machamer -- Dialectics, experiments, and mathematics in Galileo / William A. Wallace -- A rational controversy over compounding forces / Gideon Freudenthal -- The structure of a scientific controversy: Hooke versus Newton about colors / Maurizio Mamiani -- Scientific dialectics in action: the case of Joseph Priestley / Pierluigi Barrotta -- Controversies and the becoming of physical chemistry / Kostas Gavroglu -- Anthropology: art of science? a controversy about the evidence for cannibalism / Merrilee H. Salmon -- Multiple personalities, internal controversies and invisible marvels / Ian Hacking -- The theory of punctuated equilibria: taking apart a scientific controversy / Michael Ruse -- Quasars, causality, and geometry: a scientific controversy that should have happened but didn't / Wesley C. Salmon.

Includes bibliographical references and index.