Copernican Questions: A Concise Invitation to the Philosophy of Science - Softcover

Parsons, Keith McKendree

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072850205 ISBN 13: 9780072850208

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2005

Synopsis

This provocative, focused, and succinct new text addresses two issues integral to the study of the philosophy of science: the rationality of science and the realism question. Students are invited to think deeply about salient issues as they explore collections of cases and examples, beginning by considering the founding document of modern science, Copernicus’s On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, and including discussions of other key readings such as Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Author Keith Parsons challenges students’ thinking, offering his own views while providing a solid foundation for debate.

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About the Author

Keith M. Parsons is on the faculty of The University of Houston--Clear Lake, where he is Associate Professor of Philosophy and the recent winner of the President's Distinguished Research Award. His previous publications include the books God and the Burden of Proof (Prometheus Books, 1989), Drawing Out Leviathan (Indiana University Press, 2001), and The Great Dinosaur Controversy (ABC Clio Press, 2003). He holds a doctorate from the Department of History and Philosophy of Science of The University of Pittsburgh and a doctorate in philosophy from Queen's University (Canada). Dr. Parsons was the founding editor of the philosophical journal Philo. He has often served as a lecturer, debater, and workshop leader in a number of venues.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0072850205
• ISBN 13: 9780072850208
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192