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Science and its ways of knowing
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Upper Saddle River, NJ : Prentice Hall, 1997
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9780132055765
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Summary
Summary
This broad collection of accessible essays helps readers develop a fuller appreciation of the nature of science and scientific knowledge in general. The focus throughout is on the relationships in science between fact and theory, about the nature of scientific theory, and about the kinds of claims on truth that science makes. Arranges essays according to three essential aspects of scientific practice: Method, theory, and discovery. For scientists looking to broaden their general knowledge of basic scientific theory.
Table of Contents
| Preface/Acknowledgments |
| General Information |
| I On Scientific MethoD |
| Introduction |
| Can We Know the Universe?Carl Sagan |
| On Scientific MethodRobert Pirsig |
| A Method of InquiryGeorge F. Kneller |
| The So-called Scientific MethodHenry H. Bauer |
| The Germs of Dissent: Louis Pasteur and the Origins of LifeHarry Collins and Trevor Pinch |
| How Fermi Would Have Fixed ItHans Christian von Baeyer |
| Sensory Function in the Harbor SealDeane Renouf |
| II Developing a Theory |
| Introduction |
| Does Theory Ever Become Fact?Charles M. Wynn |
| My PositionStephen Hawking |
| The Aesthetic EquationHans Christian von Baeyer |
| What's Wrong with the New Physics?Robert Oldershaw |
| Science: Conjectures and RefutationsKarl Popper |
| Evolution as Fact and TheoryStephen Jay Gould |
| Einstein: The Thinking That Led to the Theory of RelativityMax Wertheimer |
| III Contexts Of Discovery |
| Introduction |
| Setting the Stage for DiscoveryRobert S. Root-Bernstein |
| Preface from Toward the Habit of TruthMahlon Hoagland |
| The Making of a DiscoveryAnne Sayre |
| FissionLuis Alvarez |
| A Feeling for the OrganismEvelyn Fox Keller |
| Learning to SeeSamuel Hubbard Scudder |
| Million-Year-Old CellsGeorge Poinar and Roberta Poinar |
