Science wars : the battle over knowledge and reality / Steven L. Goldman.

In this book, Steven L. Goldman breaks down the barriers between these two groups to explain what scientists know, how they know it, why it's reliable, and why the general public doesn't always know how to make sense of this. Taking readers from Plato's ""perpetual battle&qu...

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Main Author: Goldman, Steven L., 1941- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press USA, [2021]
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300 |a 1 online resource (vii, 293 pages). 
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 0 |t Chapter 1:  |t Knowledge as a Problem --  |g Chapter 2:  |t Is There a Scientific Method? --  |g Chapter 3:  |t Was Galileo Right and the Catholic Church Wrong? --  |g Chapter 4:  |t Newton and Knowledge of the Universe --  |g Chapter 5:  |t Science versus Philosophy --  |g Chapter 6:  |t Science and Social Reform in the Age of Reason --  |g Chapter 7:  |t What is Science About? --  |g Chapter 8:  |t The Knowledge Problem in Mature Science --  |g Chapter 9:  |t Scientific Realism and the Romantic Reaction against Reason --  |g Chapter 10:  |t Early Twentieth Century Philosophy of Science --  |g Chapter 11:  |t Einstein versus Bohr on Reality --  |g Chapter 12:  |t In Quest of the Thinker of Science --  |g Chapter 13:  |t A New Image for Science --  |g Chapter 14:  |t The Opening Phase of the Science Wars --  |g Chapter 15:  |t Taking Sides for and against Reason and Knowledge --  |g Chapter 16:  |t The Science Wars Go Public. 
520 |a In this book, Steven L. Goldman breaks down the barriers between these two groups to explain what scientists know, how they know it, why it's reliable, and why the general public doesn't always know how to make sense of this. Taking readers from Plato's ""perpetual battle"" to modern disagreements about vaccines, Goldman's Science Wars provides a thought-provoking analysis of the reliability of science. 
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