No Easy Answers: Science and the Pursuit of Knowledge - Softcover

Franklin, Allan

 
9780822959687: No Easy Answers: Science and the Pursuit of Knowledge
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0822959682 ISBN 13: 9780822959687
Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007

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In No Easy Answers, Allan Franklin offers an accurate picture of science to both a general reader and to scholars in the humanities and social sciences who may not have any background in physics. Through the examination of nontechnical case studies, he illustrates the various roles that experiment plays in science. He uses examples of unquestioned success, such as the discoveries of the electron and of three types of neutrino, as well as studies that were dead ends, wrong turns, or just plain mistakes, such as the “fifth force,” a proposed modification of Newton's law of gravity. Franklin argues that science is a reasonable enterprise that provides us with knowledge of the natural world based on valid experimental evidence and reasoned and critical discussion, and he makes clear that it behooves all of us to understand how it works.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

AllanFranklin, professor of physics at the University of Colorado, Boulder, is author of Selectivity and Discord: Two Problems of Experiment; Are There Really Neutrinos? An Evidential History; Can That Be Right? Essays on Experiment, Evidence, and Science; Experiment, Right or Wrong; and other books.

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Verlag
University of Pittsburgh Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0822959682
ISBN 13 
9780822959687
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Anzahl der Seiten
272
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