UID:
almahu_9947415162202882
Format:
1 online resource (xi, 365 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9780511628726 (ebook)
Content:
What is science? How is scientific knowledge affected by the society that produces it? Does scientific knowledge directly correspond to reality? Can we draw a line between science and pseudo-science? Will it ever be possible for computers to undertake scientific investigation independently? Is there such a thing as feminist science? In this book the author addresses questions such as these using a technique of 'cognitive play', which creates and explores new links between the ideas and results of contemporary history, philosophy, and sociology of science. New ideas and approaches are applied to a wide range of case studies, many of them from controversial and contested science. This book will be of interest to historians and sociologists of science, to anyone interested in science studies, and to educated general readers with an interest in the history, philosophy, and social context of science.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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1. Introduction -- 2. Levels of cognitive activity -- 3. Facts in frameworks -- 4. Rationality, irrationality, and relativism -- 5. Knowledge and reality -- 6. A new account of the scientific process -- 7. What, if anything, is distinctive about science? -- 8. How is good science to be distinguished from bad science? -- 9. A theory of the pathologies of science -- 10. What are acceptable variations of present science? -- 11. And in the long term? -- Appendix. Summary of cases of marginal and disputed science.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9780521560047
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511628726
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511628726
