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What Science Is and How It Works /
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
2002, 1999.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prologue: What is science?
- pt. I. Exploring the frontiers of science : how new discoveries are made in the sciences: A bird's eye view : the many routes to scientific discovery ; Nature's jigsaw : looking for patterns as a key to discovery ; New vistas : expanding our world with instrumentation ; Close, but no cigar : discrepancies as a trigger to discovery ; Ingredients for a revolution : thematic imagination, precise measurements and the motions of the planets
- pt. II. Mental tactics : some distinctively scientific approaches to the world: A universe in a bottle : models, modeling and successive approximation ; Thinking straight : evidence, reason and critical evaluation ; The numbers game : uses of quantitative reasoning
- pt. III. Larger questions : the context of science: Ultimate questions : science and religion ; More practical questions : science and society ; Difficult and important questions : science, values and ethics ; Questions of authenticity : science, pseudoscience and how to tell the difference ; Contentious questions : the shadowy borderlands of science ; Very abstract questions : the philosophy of science ; Questions of legitimacy : the postmodern critique of science
- pt. IV. Common ground : some unifying concepts in the sciences: Fleas and giants : some fascinating insights about area, volume and size ; The edge of the abyss : order and disorder in the universe ; Riding Blake's tiger : symmetry in science, art and mathematics ; The straight and narrow : linear dependence in the sciences ; The limits of the possible : exponential growth and decay ; In the loop : feedback, homeostasis and cybernetics
- Epilogue: So, what is science?