Philosophy of Science - Page 24

The Jazz of Physics: The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe

More than fifty years ago, John Coltrane drew the twelve musical notes in a circle and connected the...

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To Save the Phenomena: An Essay On The Idea Of Physical Theory From Plato To Galileo

Duhem's 1908 essay questions the relation between physical theory and metaphysics and, more specific...

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Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions at Fifty: Reflections on a Science Classic

Thomas S. Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was a watershed event when it was published...

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Failure: Why Science Is So Successful

The pursuit of science by professional scientists every day bears less and less resemblance to the p...

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Doing Physics: How Physicists Take Hold of the World

Doing Physics makes concepts of physics easier to grasp by relating them to everyday knowledge. Addr...

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Ignorance: How It Drives Science

Knowledge is a big subject, says Stuart Firestein, but ignorance is a bigger one. And it is ignoranc...

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Can Science Explain Religion? The Cognitive Science Deabate

The New Atheist movement of recent years has put the science-versus-religion controversy back on the...

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Here Be Dragons: Science, Technology and the Future of Humanity

There is a widely held conception that progress in science and technology is our salvation, and the...

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The Meaning of Science

What is science? Is it uniquely equipped to deliver universal truths? Or is it one of many disciplin...

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Scientific Realism: How Science Tracks Truth

Scientific realism is the optimistic view that modern science is on the right track: that the world...

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Mathematics and Art: A Cultural History

This is a cultural history of mathematics and art, from antiquity to the present. Mathematicians and...

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To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science

In To Explain the World, pre-eminent theoretical physicist Steven Weinberg offers a rich and irrever...

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Mathematical Knowledge and the Interplay of Practices

This book presents a new approach to the epistemology of mathematics by viewing mathematics as a hum...

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Science, Culture and Society: Understanding Science in the 21st Century

Science occupies an ambiguous space in contemporary society. Scientific research is championed in re...

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Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe

What can fashionable ideas, blind faith, or pure fantasy possibly have to do with the scientific que...

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