| 书目名称 | Getting to Know the World Scientifically |
| 副标题 | An Objective View |
| 编辑 | Paul Needham |
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| 概述 | Explains how science is used and abused and what science is.Connects systematic philosophical points with cases from history of science.Introduces the discussion of the contemporary debate of scientif |
| 丛书名称 | Synthese Library |
| 图书封面 |  |
| 描述 | .This undergraduate textbook introduces some fundamental issues in philosophy of science for students of philosophy and science students. The book is divided into two parts. Part 1 deals with knowledge and values. Chap. 1 presents the classical conception of knowledge as initiated by the ancient Greeks and elaborated during the development of science, introducing the central concepts of truth, belief and justification. Aspects of the quest for objectivity are taken up in the following two chapters. Moral issues are broached in Chap. 4, which discusses some aspects of the use and abuse of science, taking up the responsibilities of scientists in properly conducting their business and decision-makers in their concerns with the import of science for society. Part 2 contrasts the view of scientific progress as the rejecting of old hypotheses and theories and replacing them with new ones, represented by Karl Popper, with the conception of progress as accumulating knowledge, saving as muchas possible from older theories, represented by Pierre Duhem. A concluding chapter defends the natural attitude of taking the theories of modern science to be literally true, i.e. realism, in the face of |
| 出版日期 | Textbook 2020 |
| 关键词 | Introduction Philosophy of Science; Introduction scientific realism; Classical Conception of Knowledge |
| 版次 | 1 |
| doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40216-7 |
| isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-40218-1 |
| isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-40216-7Series ISSN 0166-6991 Series E-ISSN 2542-8292 |
| issn_series | 0166-6991 |
| copyright | Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 |
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