Explaining Science's Success: Understanding How Scientific Knowledge Works (Acumen Research Editions) - Hardcover

Wright, John

 
9781844655328: Explaining Science's Success: Understanding How Scientific Knowledge Works (Acumen Research Editions)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1844655326 ISBN 13: 9781844655328
Publisher: Routledge, 2012

Synopsis

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, advanced on more or less a priori grounds theories that subsequently turned out to be highly empirically successful. In this book the philosopher of science, John Wright delves deep into science's methodology to offer an explanation for this remarkable success story.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2012
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1844655326
ISBN 13 
9781844655328
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
256

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