ABSTRACT
In Chapter 1, Hasok Chang lays out his version of pragmatism and uses it as a lens through which to reflect on perspectivism in its various guises. Such a pragmatism is allied with perspectivism, he argues, for both are rooted in an understanding of science as a human activity and both see knowledge as the product of this activity. He urges a deep perspectivism on this basis, one that holds that the relation between the world and our knowledge of it is incorrigibly perspectival. A common implication of pragmatism and perspectivism, understood in this way, is the historicity of science and scientific knowledge, which accordingly motivates and grounds the integration of history and philosophy in the study of science.
