Science in the Looking Glass
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How do scientific conjectures become laws? Why do some laws turn out to be wrong? Why does proof mean different things in different sciences? Experience shows that disentangling scientific knowledge from opinion is harder than one might expect. Full of...
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How do scientific conjectures become laws? Why do some laws turn out to be wrong? Why does proof mean different things in different sciences? Experience shows that disentangling scientific knowledge from opinion is harder than one might expect. Full of illuminating examples and quotations, this book brings alive issues at the heart of all science.
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How do scientific conjectures become laws? Why does proof mean different things in different sciences? Do numbers exist, or were they invented? Why do some laws turn out to be wrong? In this wide-ranging book, Brian Davies discusses the basis for scientists' claims to knowledge about the world. He looks at science historically, emphasizing not only the achievements of scientists from Galileo onwards, but also their mistakes. He rejects the claim that all scientific knowledge is provisional, by citing examples from chemistry, biology and geology. A major feature of the book is its defence of the view that mathematics was invented rather than discovered. While experience has shown that disentangling knowledge from opinion and aspiration is a hard task, this book provides a clear guide to the difficulties.
Full of illuminating examples and quotations, and with a scope ranging from psychology and evolution to quantum theory and mathematics, this book brings alive issues at the heart of all science.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Science in the Looking Glass “
- 1: Perception and Language
- 2: Theories of the Mind
- 3: Arithmetic
- 4: How Hard can Problems get?
- 5: Pure Mathematics
- 6: Mechanics and Astronomy
- 7: Probability and Quantum Theory
- 8: Is Evolution a Theory?
- 9: Against Reductionism
- 10: Some Final Thoughts
Autoren-Porträt von Davies
Professor E. B. DaviesDepartment of Mathematics
King's College London
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Davies
- 2007, 306 Seiten, mit Abbildungen, Maße: 15,9 x 23,4 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0199219184
- ISBN-13: 9780199219186
- Erscheinungsdatum: 28.06.2007
Sprache:
Englisch
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