Introduction to the Philosophy of Science by Anthony O'Hear
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- 256pp
- Sales Rank: 301,464
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- ISBN-13: 9780198248132
- Edition Description: New Edition
- Edition Number: 1
- Pub. Date: May 1989
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: May 1989
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
- Format: Textbook Paperback, 256pp
- Sales Rank: 301,464
- ISBN-13: 9780198248132
- ISBN: 019824813X
- Edition Number: 1
- Edition Description: New Edition
Synopsis
This balanced and up-to-date introduction to the philosophy of science covers all the main topics in the area, and initiates the student into the moral and social reality of science. O'Hear discusses the growth of knowledge of science, the status of scientific theories and their relationship to observational data, the extent to which scientific theories rest on unprovable paradigms, and the nature of scientific explanations. In later chapters he considers probability, scientific reductionism, the relationship between science and technology, and the relationship between scientific and other values.
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He considers probability, scientific reductionism, the relationship between science and technology, and the relationship between scientific and other values.
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