The intelligibility of nature : how science makes sense of the world /

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Throughout the history of the Western world, science has possessed an extraordinary amount of authority and prestige. And while its pedestal has been jostled by numerous evolutions and revolutions, science has always managed to maintain its stronghold as the knowing enterprise that explains how the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dear, Peter, 1958-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Colección:Science.culture.
Temas:
Science > Methodology > History.
Science > Philosophy > History.
Reasoning > History.
Philosophy of nature > History.
Sciences > Méthodologie > Histoire.
Philosophie de la nature > Histoire.
SCIENCE > Philosophy & Social Aspects.
Philosophy of nature
Reasoning
Science > Methodology
Science > Philosophy
Naturwissenschaften
Naturphilosophie
Anwendung
Methodologie
Wissenschaftsphilosophie
philosophie de la nature.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : science as natural philosophy, science as instrumentality
  • The mechanical universe from Galileo to Newton
  • A place for everything : the classification of the world
  • The chemical revolution thwarted by atoms
  • Design and disorder : the origin of species
  • Dynamical explanation : the aether and Victorian machines
  • How to understand nature? : Einstein, Bohr, and the quantum universe
  • Conclusion : making sense in science.

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