| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 293 pages) |
| Contents |
Chapter 1: Knowledge as a Problem -- Chapter 2: Is There a Scientific Method? -- Chapter 3: Was Galileo Right and the Catholic Church Wrong? -- Chapter 4: Newton and Knowledge of the Universe -- Chapter 5: Science versus Philosophy -- Chapter 6: Science and Social Reform in the Age of Reason -- Chapter 7: What is Science About? -- Chapter 8: The Knowledge Problem in Mature Science -- Chapter 9: Scientific Realism and the Romantic Reaction against Reason -- Chapter 10: Early Twentieth Century Philosophy of Science -- Chapter 11: Einstein versus Bohr on Reality -- Chapter 12: In Quest of the Thinker of Science -- Chapter 13: A New Image for Science -- Chapter 14: The Opening Phase of the Science Wars -- Chapter 15: Taking Sides for and against Reason and Knowledge -- Chapter 16: The Science Wars Go Public |
| Summary |
In this book, Steven L. Goldman breaks down the barriers between these two groups to explain what scientists know, how they know it, why it's reliable, and why the general public doesn't always know how to make sense of this. Taking readers from Plato's ""perpetual battle"" to modern disagreements about vaccines, Goldman's Science Wars provides a thought-provoking analysis of the reliability of science |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed July 19, 2022) |
| Subject |
Discoveries in science.
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Science -- History.
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Discoveries in science
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Science
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780197518632 |
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019751863X |
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