Reliable Knowledge: An Exploration of the Grounds for Belief in Science - Couverture rigide

Ziman, John M.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0521220874 ISBN 13 : 9780521220873

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1979

Synopsis

Reliable Knowledge offers a valuably clear account and a radically challenging investigation of the credibility of scientific knowledge.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Why believe in the findings of science? John Ziman argues that scientific knowledge is not uniformly reliable, but rather like a map representing a country we cannot visit. He shows how science has many elements, including alongside its experiments and formulae the language and logic, patterns and preconceptions, facts and fantasies used to illustrate and express its findings. These elements are variously combined by scientists in their explanations of the material world as it lies outside our everyday experience. John Ziman's book offers at once a valuably clear account and a radically challenging investigation of the credibility of scientific knowledge, searching widely across a range of disciplines for evidence about the perceptions, paradigms and analogies on which all our understanding depends.

Revue de presse

'He is one of the cleverest and most urbane liberal scientists writing about science today.' The Guardian

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 1979
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521220874
• ISBN 13: 9780521220873
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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