Science At Centurys End: Philosophical Questions On The Progress And Limits Of S (Pitt Konstanz Phil Hist Scienc) - Hardcover

 
9780822941217: Science At Centurys End: Philosophical Questions On The Progress And Limits Of S (Pitt Konstanz Phil Hist Scienc)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 082294121X ISBN 13: 9780822941217
Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

Most scientists and laypersons believe science and progress go hand in hand, yet philosophers and historians of science have long questioned this link. In this study, 20 essays explore and debate the limits of scientific inquiry and their presumed consequences for science in the 21st century.

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Críticas

"The exemplars from 18th-century chemistry, 19th-century electromagnetic theory, and contemporary particle physics, biology, and quantum theory well illustrate the classical struggles of realism, induction, explanation, and prediction that occupy current considerations of modern scientific change. . . . This volume well represents a fertile spectrum of issues of urgency to both introductory and veteran participants. Highly recommended." --Choice

Reseña del editor

To most laypersons and scientists, science and progress appear to go hand in hand, yet philosophers and historians of science have long questioned the inevitability of this pairing. As we take leave of a century acclaimed for scientific advances and progress, Science at Century's End, the eighth volume of the Pittsburgh-Konstanz Series in the Philosophy and History of Science, takes the reader to the heart of this important matter. Subtitled Philosophical Questions on the Progress and Limits of Science, this timely volume contains twenty penetrating essays by prominent philosophers and historians who explore and debate the limits of scientific inquiry and their presumed consequences for science in the 21st century.

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Verlag
University of Pittsburgh Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
082294121X
ISBN 13 
9780822941217
Einband
Tapa dura
Anzahl der Seiten
400
Herausgeber
Carrier Martin, Ruetsche Laura, Massey Gerald J.
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