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Explaining science's success : understanding how scientific knowledge works /
Paul Feyeraband famously asked, what''s so great about science? One answer is that it has been surprisingly successful in getting things right about the natural world, more successful than non-scientific or pre-scientific systems, religion or philosophy. Science has been able to formulate...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Routledge,
2014.
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| Colección: | Acumen research editions.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Some surprising phenomena
- 2. Some unsatisfactory explanations of the phenomena
- 3. A defeasible a priori justification of induction
- 4. The independence of theory from data
- 5. Some more success-conducive properties of theories
- 6. Newton's laws of motion and law of gravitation
- 7. Special relativity
- 8. Mendelian genetics
- 9. Conclusion.