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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 :
Oxford University Press,
[2014]
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| Colección: | Environmental ethics and science policy.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Speaking truth to power: uncovering flawed methods, protecting lives and welfare. Part I. Conceptual and logical analysis. Discovering dump dangers: unearthing hazards in hydrogeology
- Hormesis harms: the emperor has no biochemistry clothes
- Trading lives for money: compensating wage differentials in economics. Part II. Heuristic analysis and developing hypotheses. Learning from analogy: extrapolating from animal data in toxicology
- Conjectures and conflict: a thought experiment in physics
- Being a disease detective: discovering causes in epidemiology
- Why statistics is slippery: easy algorithms fail in biology. Part III. Methodological analysis and justifying hypotheses. Releasing radioactivity: hypothesis-prediction in hydrology
- Protecting Florida panthers: historical-comparativist methods in zoology
- Cracking case studies: why they work in sciences such as ecology
- Uncovering cover-up: inference to the best explanation in medicine. Part IV. Values analysis and scientific uncertainty. Value judgements can kill: expected-utility rules in decision theory
- Understanding uncertainty: false negatives in quantitative risk analysis
- Where we go from here: making philosophy of science practical.