Science and Its Ways of Knowing

Name: Science and Its Ways of Knowing
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ISBN: 9780132055765

ISBN-10: 0132055767

ISBN-13: 9780132055765

Edition: 1st 1997

Authors: John Hatton, Paul B. Plouffe

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Appropriate as a supplemental reader for majors-level introduction to science courses as well as introductory courses in all sciences biology, chemistry, physics, and the geosciences. This broad collection of accessibleessays helps students develop a fuller appreciation of the nature of science and scientific knowledge in general and of their own discipline specialty within it. The focus throughout is on the relationships in science between fact and theory, about the nature of scientific theory, and about the kinds of claims on truth that science makes.

Book details

List price: $70.80
Edition: 1st
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Benjamin-Cummings Publishing Company
Publication date: 11/26/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 150
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.440



Preface/Acknowledgments


General Information



On Scientific MethoD


Introduction


Can We Know the Universe?



On Scientific Method



A Method of Inquiry



The So-called Scientific Method



The Germs of Dissent: Louis Pasteur and the Origins of Life



How Fermi Would Have Fixed It



Sensory Function in the Harbor Seal




Developing a Theory


Introduction


Does Theory Ever Become Fact?



My Position



The Aesthetic Equation



What's Wrong with the New Physics?



Science: Conjectures and Refutations



Evolution as Fact and Theory



Einstein: The Thinking That Led to the Theory of Relativity




Contexts Of Discovery


Introduction


Setting the Stage for Discovery



Preface from Toward the Habit of Truth



The Making of a Discovery



Fission



A Feeling for the Organism



Learning to See



Million-Year-Old Cells