Ronald Greed
Ronald N. Giere (born November 29, 1938 in Cleveland , Ohio ; † 2020 ) was an American scientist .
Career
After studying physics at Oberlin College (AB, 1960) and at Cornell University in Ithaca , New York (Master of Science, 1963), he received his Ph.D. from Cornell in 1968. of philosophy . He held his first academic position from 1966 to 1987 at Indiana University Bloomington in the Department of History of Science and Theory of Science (first as a lecturer , later as a professor). From 1987 to 1996 he taught as a professor at the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis . Giere worked as a member of the editorial team of the journal Philosophy of Science . In the 1990s he was President of the Philosophy of Science Association .
His areas of work were cognitive models in the sciences (science cognition) as a form of distributed cognition and as a perspective nature of scientific knowledge. In his view, (natural) science is neither as objective as positivism claims, nor as relative as constructivism fears. Science reflects a specifically human perspective of the world as an objective reality. Giere draws on the approaches of perspectivism in Leibniz , Kant and Nietzsche and tries to develop a scientific perspectivism within the scientific reference system.
He was married to the historian Barbara Hanawalt .
Fonts
- Understanding Scientific Reasoning (4th Edition 1997)
- Explaining Science: A Cognitive Approach (1988)
- Science Without Laws (1999)
Web links
- Literature by and about Ronald Giere in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Ronald Giere's homepage in the Internet Archive
Individual evidence
- ^ Anna Estany: Ronald N. Giere, un maestro de la filosofía de la ciencia. In: El País. May 31, 2020, accessed June 4, 2020 (Spanish).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Greed, Ronald |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Greed, Ronald N. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American theorist of science |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 29, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cleveland |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2020 |