Nature of Science Integrating Historical, Philosophical, and Sociological Perspectives

Name: Nature of Science Integrating Historical, Philosophical, and Sociological Perspectives
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ISBN: 9781442209527

ISBN-10: 1442209526

ISBN-13: 9781442209527

Edition: 2011

Authors: Fernando Espinoza

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List price: $53.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/9/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 184
Size: 6.08" wide x 9.07" long x 0.52" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Need for Scientific Literacy



The Origins of Accomplishing Tasks: From Individual to Organized Efforts



The Earliest Comprehensive and Rationalistic Syntheses



Knowing, Doing, and the Inevitability of Curiosity and Exploration



From the Transcendent to the Temporal: A Transformative Experience



From Qualities to Quantities: The Mathematization of Nature



Internalizing Naturalistic Explanations: Benefit or Threat?



Dispensing with Philosophy and Entertaining Limits to Human Knowledge



Scientifically Speaking, We Know a Lot or Do We?



The Need for a Context



The Rightful Place of Science in Society



Concluding Reflections


Appendixes


Notes


Index


About the Author