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Tainted : how philosophy of science can expose bad science /
This is the first book on practical philosophy of science and how to practically evaluate scientific findings that have life-and-death consequences. Showing how to uncover scores of scientific flaws -- typically used by special interests who try to justify their deadly pollution -- this book aims to...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford University Press,
[2014]
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| Colección: | Environmental ethics and science policy.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Speaking truth to power: uncovering flawed methods, protecting lives and welfare. |g Part I. Conceptual and logical analysis. |t Discovering dump dangers: unearthing hazards in hydrogeology -- |t Hormesis harms: the emperor has no biochemistry clothes -- |t Trading lives for money: compensating wage differentials in economics. |g Part II. Heuristic analysis and developing hypotheses. |t Learning from analogy: extrapolating from animal data in toxicology -- |t Conjectures and conflict: a thought experiment in physics -- |t Being a disease detective: discovering causes in epidemiology -- |t Why statistics is slippery: easy algorithms fail in biology. |g Part III. Methodological analysis and justifying hypotheses. |t Releasing radioactivity: hypothesis-prediction in hydrology -- |t Protecting Florida panthers: historical-comparativist methods in zoology -- |t Cracking case studies: why they work in sciences such as ecology -- |t Uncovering cover-up: inference to the best explanation in medicine. |g Part IV. Values analysis and scientific uncertainty. |t Value judgements can kill: expected-utility rules in decision theory -- |t Understanding uncertainty: false negatives in quantitative risk analysis -- |t Where we go from here: making philosophy of science practical. |
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