It started with Copernicus - Info and Reading Options
vital questions about science
By Keith M. Parsons
"It started with Copernicus" was published in 2014 - nyu, it has 429 pages and the language of the book is English.
“It started with Copernicus” Metadata:
- Title: It started with Copernicus
- Author: Keith M. Parsons
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 429
- Publish Date: 2014
- Publish Location: nyu
“It started with Copernicus” Subjects and Themes:
- Subjects: ➤ Science - Methodology - Philosophy - Constructive realism - History - Science, philosophy - Science, history - Science, methodology - Constructivism (philosophy)
Edition Specifications:
- Pagination: 429 pages
Edition Identifiers:
- The Open Library ID: OL27165404M - OL19985276W
- Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) ID: 858126078
- Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN): 2014006791
- ISBN-13: 9781616149291
- ISBN-10: 1616149299
- All ISBNs: 1616149299 - 9781616149291
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"It started with Copernicus" Table Of Contents:
- 1- Copernican questions, 2006 ; It started with Copernicus, 2014
- 2- Copernican questions. What was Copernicus's revolution? ; What happens when your world changes? ; Copernican questions : rationality and realism ; The plan of the book
- 3- Is science really rational? : the problem of incommensurability. Incommensurability of standards ; Incommensurability of values ; Incommensurability of meaning ; Evaluating meaning incommensurability ; Conversion : a concluding case study
- 4- A walk on the wild side : social constructivism, postmodernism, feminism, and that old-time religion. The constructivist challenge ; Postmodernism attacks! ; Is "objectivity" what a man calls his subjectivity? ; Is science godless?
- 5- Ascending the slippery slope : scientific progress and truth. The evils of Whig history ; Social-constructivist history ; Does science converge toward truth? ; Assessing Laudan's Critique of Convergent Realism ; Scientists' own realism ; Could we be wrong about everything?
- 6- Truth of consequences? Electrons : real particles or convenient fictions? ; Van Fraassen's constrictive empiricism ; Do we observe through microscopes? ; But what about things that are really unobservable? ; So what really is the goal of science?
- 7- Mysteries of methods. Induction and deduction ; Aristotle : the first methodologist ; Bacon : scientific method renovated? ; The hypothetico-deductive method ; Hume on induction ; Popper and the rejection of induction ; Inference to the Best Explanation (IBE) to the rescue?
- 8- If you have science, who needs philosophy? The limits of science? ; The breakdown of philosophy ; Naturalizing epistemology ; Naturalizing ethics ; Philosophy in an age of science
- 9- Science, scientism, and being human. Mind : physical or spiritual? ; Science and the human image ; Ape, angel, or neither?
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