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'In this bold and wide-ranging new book, Hasok Chang provides a cornucopia of new ideas that challenge deeply-entrenched ways of thinking about scientific practice. He shows how insights of views that are often taken to be at odds with one another can be fruitfully combined in his own distinctive version of pragmatism. A tour de force.' Philip Kitcher, Emeritus, Columbia University 'It is a challenging task for philosophy of science to understand science in its subtlety and complexity. In this book, Hasok Chang achieves even more than that. His endeavour to make knowledge active is an inspiring contribution to reworking and improving the epistemic framework of science.' Martin Carrier, Bielefield University

'In this bold and wide-ranging new book, Hasok Chang provides a cornucopia of new ideas that challenge deeply-entrenched ways of thinking about scientific practice. He shows how insights of views that are often taken to be at odds with one another can be fruitfully combined in his own distinctive version of pragmatism. A tour de force.' Philip Kitcher, Emeritus, Columbia University 'It is a challenging task for philosophy of science to understand science in its subtlety and complexity. In this book, Hasok Chang achieves even more than that. His endeavour to make knowledge active is an inspiring contribution to reworking and improving the epistemic framework of science.' Martin Carrier, Bielefield University 'Chang's comprehensive vision presented in this book compliments his studies of historical and contemporary scientific practice by setting out the proper stance in the philosophy of science. It is a very impressive accomplishment which distills the essential arguments from the vast literature on realism.' David J. Stump, Metascience

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Hasok Chang is the Hans Rausing Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Inventing Temperature: Measurement and Scientific Progress (2004), joint winner of the 2006 Lakatos Award, and of Is Water H2O? Evidence, Realism and Pluralism (2012).

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