Science Without Limits: Toward a Theory of Interaction Between Nature and Knowledge - Hardcover

Perlman, James S.

 
9780879759629: Science Without Limits: Toward a Theory of Interaction Between Nature and Knowledge
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0879759623 ISBN 13: 9780879759629
Verlag: Prometheus, 1995

Inhaltsangabe

What role does the "human factor" play in the scientific process? How does it influence discovery? This volume examines the role of the scientist in the process of understanding the world.

Perlman emphasizes the interactive human character of scientific inquiry, a dynamic interplay between human beings and their surroundings embodying attempts to understand, anticipate, and cope with nature. Scientists, ancient or modern, are seen as a conscious part of nature, interacting both physically and mentally with the world, forming an open system with what is observed, measured and explained. Perlman takes a historical approach, addressing the early search for natural order, recognition of rhythms in nature, the use of guiding faiths or assumptions, building conceptual models and projecting them upon nature, feedback, perpetual modification and reorganization of ideas, and the eventual recognition of interlocking scientific worlds. He also addresses scientific survival techniques, learning from experience, natural causes in the scientific process, conceptual images and science and society.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

James S. Perlman is emeritus professor of Interdisciplinary Physical Science at San Francisco State University.

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In this fascinating volume, scientist and teacher James S. Perlman shows us that science is not a dry, mechanistic process but a dynamic interplay between human beings and their surroundings, embodying their attempts to understand, anticipate, and cope with natural events. The interactive nature of science requires the use of our minds, imaginations, and sense-extending apparatus, such as telescopes and microscopes. We are reminded that scientists do not merely observe; they form ideas and images which they then project back upon nature to explain what they see. And these ideas and images are themselves influenced by the limitations of the observer as well as by prevailing social, intellectual, and technological conditions. In Science without Limits, Dr. Perlman takes us on an extraordinary voyage through history as he demonstrates the ways in which science developed as a distinctly human and evolving enterprise from early man to the present. On our journey Perlman introduces us to the great figures of Western science and how their discoveries modified existing ways of viewing the world.

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Verlag
Prometheus
Erscheinungsdatum
1995
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0879759623
ISBN 13 
9780879759629
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Anzahl der Seiten
358
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