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Reliable knowledge an exploration of the grounds for belief in science John Ziman

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: CantoPublisher: Cambridge [u.a.] Cambridge Univ. Press 1996Edition: ReprDescription: IX, 197 S. Ill., graph. Darst. 22 cmContent type:
  • Text
Media type:
  • ohne Hilfsmittel zu benutzen
Carrier type:
  • Band
ISBN:
  • 0521406706
  • 0521220874
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 501
LOC classification:
  • Q175 E210
Other classification:
  • CC 4400
  • CC 3700
  • UB 6000
  • TB 6200
  • AK 20000
  • CC 3200
Online resources: Action note:
  • 1
Summary: Why believe in the findings of science? John Ziman argues that scientific knowledge is not uniformly reliable, but rather like a map representing a country we cannot visit. He shows how science has many elements, including alongside its experiments and formulae the language and logic, patterns and preconceptions, facts and fantasies used to illustrate and express its findings. These elements are variously combined by scientists in their explanations of the material world as it lies outside our everyday experience. John Ziman's book offers at once a valuably clear account and a radically challenging investigation of the credibility of scientific knowledge, searching widely across a range of disciplines for evidence about the perceptions, paradigms and analogies on which all our understanding depends.
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Why believe in the findings of science? John Ziman argues that scientific knowledge is not uniformly reliable, but rather like a map representing a country we cannot visit. He shows how science has many elements, including alongside its experiments and formulae the language and logic, patterns and preconceptions, facts and fantasies used to illustrate and express its findings. These elements are variously combined by scientists in their explanations of the material world as it lies outside our everyday experience. John Ziman's book offers at once a valuably clear account and a radically challenging investigation of the credibility of scientific knowledge, searching widely across a range of disciplines for evidence about the perceptions, paradigms and analogies on which all our understanding depends.

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