Buch, Englisch, 306 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 480 g
What do scientists really know?
Buch, Englisch, 306 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 480 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-921918-6
Verlag: Oxford University Press
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.
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Fachgebiete
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Populärwissenschaftliche Werke
- Naturwissenschaften Physik Quantenphysik
- Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Evolutionsbiologie
- Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Astronomie: Sachbuch
- Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein Geschichte der Physik
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Human- und Sozialwissenschaften
- Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
- Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Allgemein Geschichte der Mathematik
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Wissenschaften: Theorie, Epistemologie, Methodik
Weitere Infos & Material
- 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
