Download or read book Bachelard: Science and Objectivity written by Mary Tiles and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984-12-06 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concentrates on Bachelard's central critique of scientific knowledge. Reveals that his concern with discontinuities in the history of science is in accord with recent debates about the nature of rationality and the "incommensurability" of different scientific theories.