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Philosophy of Medicine: Prolegomena to a Philosophy of Science

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2022

Marjorie Grene
Marjorie Grene*
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University of California, Davis
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The question before us is hard to get a handle on, or so I have found. For one thing, philosophy of science has been for almost half a century a growing industry, by now indeed a far flung empire, with its national and international organizations, its subsidiaries, its power struggles, its captains of industry, its apprentices and rising young executives. You name it, we've got it! Philosophy of medicine, on the other hand, though growing fast, largely, I fear, for practical rather than intellectual reasons, is a late comer. There isn't as much of it and there hasn't been time to develop the schisms that really make an academic discipline look as if it's doing something. For philosophy of medicine to instruct philosophy of science, therefore, seems a little like the corner grocer's telling General Foods how to run their business.

Type
Part II. What Does Philosophy of Medicine Have to Do with Philosophy of Science?
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PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association , Volume 1976 , Issue 2: Volume Two: Symposia and Invited Papers 1976 , 1976 , pp. 77 - 93
Copyright
Copyright © 1977 by the Philosophy of Science Association

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