University of Western Ontario series in philosophy of science, v. 25.
Originally published by D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland in 1984. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1984.
Introduction: The Sociological Turn --; The Pseudo-Science of Science? --; The Strengths of the Strong Programme --; The Strong Program: A Dialogue --; Problems of Intelligibility and Paradigm Instances --; The Rational and the Social in the History of Science --; A Plague on Both Your Houses --; Two Historiographical Strategies: Ideas and Social Conditions in the History of Science --; The Role of Arational Factors in Interpretive History: The Case of Kant and ESP --; On the Sociology of Belief, Knowledge, and Science --; Scientific and Other Interests --; The Sociology of Reasons: Or Why 'Epistemic Factors' are Really 'Social Factors'.