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Smoke and Mirrors : How Science Reflects Reality.
In response to recent critics, this is a vigorous defence of realism. The roles of abstraction, abstract objects and a priori methods are explored, demonstrating the ways in which science mirrors the world.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Routledge,
1994.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Explaining the success of science; Smoke; Rorty's Solidarity; Latour's prosaic science; The naturalism of Ruse; Putnam's verification; Mirrors; Knowledge; in the abstract; Phenomena; What is the vector potential?; Proof and truth in the abstract realm; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index.