Ronald Giere

Ronald N. Giere ( born 1938 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American philosopher of science.

After studying physics at Oberlin College (AB, 1960) and Cornell University in Ithaca, New York (MS, 1963), he earned his doctorate in 1968 at Cornell for Ph.D. of philosophy. His first academic position from 1966 to 1987 at Indiana University Bloomington in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science ( first as a Lecturer and later as a professor ). From 1987 until 1996 he taught as a professor at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. Giere worked as a member of the team editor of the journal Philosophy of Science. In the 1990s he was president of the Philosophy of Science Association.

His research interests are cognitive models in the sciences ( science cognition) as a form of distributed cognition and perspective as nature of scientific knowledge. In his view, the (natural ) science is not as objective as the positivism asserts, even the relatively how the constructivism feared. Science reflecting a specifically human perspective of the world as an objective reality. Giere draws on approaches of perspectivism in Leibniz, Kant and Nietzsche and tries to develop a scientific perspectivism within the scientific reference system.

Works

Publications

  • Understanding Scientific Reasoning (4th edition 1997 )
  • Explaining Science: A Cognitive Approach ( 1988)
  • Science Without Laws ( 1999)

Article

  • Cognitive Models of Science ( 1992)
  • Origins of Logical Empiricism (1996 )
  • Philosopher of science
  • University teachers ( Minneapolis )
  • Americans
  • Born in 1938
  • Man
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