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The limits of science /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
1999.
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| Edición: | Revised edition. |
| Colección: | University of Pittsburgh Press Digital Editions
University of Pittsburgh Digital Collections |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Question dynamics and problems of scientific completeness
- Questions and scientific progress
- The instability of science
- Complexity escalation as an obstacle to completing science
- Against convergentism
- Question dynamics and problems of scientific completeness
- The unpredictability of future science
- Against insolubilia
- The price of an ultimate theory
- The theoretical unrealizability of perfected science
- The practical infeasibility of perfecting science
- Can computers overcome our limitations?
- Extraterrestrial science (could aliens overcome our limitations?)
- The limits of quantification in human affairs
- The limited province of natural science.