INTRODUCTION TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE by O'Hear, Anthony ISBN 019824813X
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An introduction to the main topics of the philosophy of science and the moral and social reality of science. The author discusses the growth of knowledge of science, the status of scientific theories and their relationship to observational data and the nature of scientific explanations.
This book is a balanced and up-to-date introduction to the philosophy of science. It covers all the main topics in the area, as well as introducing the student to the moral and social reality of science. The author's style is free from jargon, and although he makes use of scientific examples, these should be intelligible to those without much scientific background. At the same time the questions he raises are not merely abstract, so the book will be of interest and concern to scientists as well as philosophers. The author discusses the growth of knowledge of science, the status of scientific theories and their relationship to observational data, the extent to which scientific theories rest on unprovable paradigms, and the nature of scientific explanations. In later chapters he considers probability, scientific reductionism, the relationship between science and technology, and the relationship between scientific and other values.
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[edit] Title
INTRODUCTION TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
[edit] Author
O'Hear, Anthony
[edit] ISBN
019824813X
[edit] Published
30/03/1989
[edit] Publisher
Oxford University Press
[edit] Binding
paperback (B format)
[edit] Retail Price
20.49 (GBP)
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