Explaining Science's Success

Explaining Science's Success: Understanding How Scientific Knowledge Works

by Wright, John, (John N.)

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Paul Feyeraband famously asked, what''s so great about science? One answer is that it has been surprisingly successful in getting things right about the natural world, more successful than non-scientific or pre-scientific systems, religion or philosophy. Science has been able to formulate theories that have successfully predicted novel observations. It has produced theories about parts of reality that were not observable or accessible at the time those theories were first advanced, but the clai…

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  • Full title :Explaining Science's Success : Understanding How Scientific Knowledge Works / John Wright.

Summary

Paul Feyeraband famously asked, what''s so great about science? One answer is that it has been surprisingly successful in getting things right about the natural world, more successful than non-scientific or pre-scientific systems, religion or philosophy. Science has been able to formulate theories that have successfully predicted novel observations. It has produced theories about parts of reality that were not observable or accessible at the time those theories were first advanced, but the claims about those inaccessible areas have since turned out to be true. And science has, on occasion, ad.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2013.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Acumen Pub
  • Place of Publication:Durham
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:©2013.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (v, 199 pages).

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:1844655334, 9781844655335, 1317544889, 9781317544883, 1315729091, 9781315729091, 1317544897, 9781317544890
  • DOI:10.4324/9781315729091
  • oclc:ocn866622302
  • LC Classification:Q175
  • Dewey Decimal:501

Table of Contents

1. Some surprising phenomena -- 2. Some unsatisfactory explanations of the phenomena -- 3. A defeasible a priori justification of induction -- 4. The independence of theory from data -- 5. Some more success-conducive properties of theories -- 6. Newton's laws of motion and law of gravitation -- 7. Special relativity -- 8. Mendelian genetics -- 9. Conclusion.

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Subjects

Science -- Methodology Science -- Philosophy Sciences -- Méthodologie

Writers

Wright, John, (John N.)

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