Explaining Science's Success: Understanding How Scientific Knowledge Works - Couverture rigide

Wright, John

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1844655326 ISBN 13 : 9781844655328

Editeur : Acumen Publishing Ltd, 2012

Synopsis

Paul Feyeraband famously asked, what's so great about science? One answer is that it has been surprisingly successful in getting things right about the natural world, more successful than non-scientific or pre-scientific systems, religion or philosophy. Science has been able to formulate theories that have successfully predicted novel observations. It has produced theories about parts of reality that were not observable or accessible at the time those theories were first advanced, but the claims about those inaccessible areas have since turned out to be true. And science has, on occasion, advanced on more or less a priori grounds theories that subsequently turned out to be highly empirically successful. In this book the philosopher of science, John Wright delves deep into science's methodology to offer an explanation for this remarkable success story.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

John Wright is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Newcastle, Australia.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Acumen Publishing Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1844655326
• ISBN 13: 9781844655328
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible