Author: Andrew BROWN (Member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
The Philosophy of Physics, Or Process of Creative Development, Etc
Author: Andrew BROWN (Member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Catalogue Raisonné
Author: Rickey, Mallory & CoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Young Men's Association of the City of Chicago
Author: Young Men's Association of the City of Chicago. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Rickey, Mallory and Company's Catalogue Raisonné
Author: Rickey, Mallory and Company's Catalogue Raisonné
Author: John Whitney (Jr.)Catalogue of the Young Men's Mercantile Library Association, of Cincinnati
Author: Young Men's Mercantile Library Association (Cincinnati, Ohio)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum ...
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1082
Book Description
The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science
Author: Michael StrevensPublisher: Liveright Publishing
ISBN: 1631491385
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
“The Knowledge Machine is the most stunningly illuminating book of the last several decades regarding the all-important scientific enterprise.” —Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of Plato at the Googleplex A paradigm-shifting work, The Knowledge Machine revolutionizes our understanding of the origins and structure of science. • Why is science so powerful? • Why did it take so long—two thousand years after the invention of philosophy and mathematics—for the human race to start using science to learn the secrets of the universe? In a groundbreaking work that blends science, philosophy, and history, leading philosopher of science Michael Strevens answers these challenging questions, showing how science came about only once thinkers stumbled upon the astonishing idea that scientific breakthroughs could be accomplished by breaking the rules of logical argument. Like such classic works as Karl Popper’s The Logic of Scientific Discovery and Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, The Knowledge Machine grapples with the meaning and origins of science, using a plethora of vivid historical examples to demonstrate that scientists willfully ignore religion, theoretical beauty, and even philosophy to embrace a constricted code of argument whose very narrowness channels unprecedented energy into empirical observation and experimentation. Strevens calls this scientific code the iron rule of explanation, and reveals the way in which the rule, precisely because it is unreasonably close-minded, overcomes individual prejudices to lead humanity inexorably toward the secrets of nature. “With a mixture of philosophical and historical argument, and written in an engrossing style” (Alan Ryan), The Knowledge Machine provides captivating portraits of some of the greatest luminaries in science’s history, including Isaac Newton, the chief architect of modern science and its foundational theories of motion and gravitation; William Whewell, perhaps the greatest philosopher-scientist of the early nineteenth century; and Murray Gell-Mann, discoverer of the quark. Today, Strevens argues, in the face of threats from a changing climate and global pandemics, the idiosyncratic but highly effective scientific knowledge machine must be protected from politicians, commercial interests, and even scientists themselves who seek to open it up, to make it less narrow and more rational—and thus to undermine its devotedly empirical search for truth. Rich with illuminating and often delightfully quirky illustrations, The Knowledge Machine, written in a winningly accessible style that belies the import of its revisionist and groundbreaking concepts, radically reframes much of what we thought we knew about the origins of the modern world.
The British Library General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1975
Author: British LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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