Isbn: 9780792357742 - fact, faith and fiction in the development of science: the gifford lectures given in the university of st andrews 1976 (boston studies in the philosophy and history of science, 205, band 205) (6 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Poor. Volume 205. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Book contains highlighter markings. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1050grams, ISBN:0792357744.…

Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol. 205. 8vo. xvi, 454 pp. Color frontispiece, 57 figs., index. Cloth, dust-jacket. Very good +. Scarce in jacket. ISBN: 0792357744.

Zustand: New. In English.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - In this posthumous book, the late Professor R. Hooykaas (1906-1994) conveys a lifetime of historical thought about modes of scientific advance over the centuries. In what variety of ways has the human mind, with all its subjectivity and its capacity for self-deception, but also its piercing gifts of discovery, managed to come to terms with `the whimsical tricks of nature' Central to this erudite, penetrating, and widely ranging study is Hooykaas's distinction between facts (given by nature yet entirely subject to our mode of interpreting them), faith (broad conceptions like the idea of order, of simplicity, or of harmony), and fictions in the sense of those daring intellectual tools, such as theories and hypotheses and models, which reflect the scientist's creative imagination. Case studies drawn from the history of all branches of science (including chemistry and the earth sciences) and from Antiquity to the present day, serve to widen and to deepen the understanding of every reader (whether a historian of science or not) with a desire to learn more about the realities of the scientific pursuit.…

Zustand: Gut. Zustand: Gut | Seiten: 462 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Keine Beschreibung verfügbar.

Gebunden. Zustand: New. In this posthumous book, the late Professor R. Hooykaas (1906-1994) conveys a lifetime of historical thought about modes of scientific advance over the centuries. In what variety of ways has the human mind, with all its subjectivity and its capacity for.