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Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
The Westminster Review
Author: Westminster and Foreign Quarterly Review
Author: “The” Quarterly Journal of Science
Author: The Popular Science Monthly
Author: Journal of Science
Author: Popular Science
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Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Popular Science gives our readers the information and tools to improve their technology and their world. The core belief that Popular Science and our readers share: The future is going to be better, and science and technology are the driving forces that will help make it better.
The quarterly journal of science and annals of mining, metallurgy, engineering, industrial arts, manufactures, and technology
Author: Quarterly Journal of Science, and Annals of Mining, Metallurgy, Engineering, Industrial Arts, Manufactures, and Technology
Author: How to Do Science with Models
Author: Axel GelfertPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319279548
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Taking scientific practice as its starting point, this book charts the complex territory of models used in science. It examines what scientific models are and what their function is. Reliance on models is pervasive in science, and scientists often need to construct models in order to explain or predict anything of interest at all. The diversity of kinds of models one finds in science – ranging from toy models and scale models to theoretical and mathematical models – has attracted attention not only from scientists, but also from philosophers, sociologists, and historians of science. This has given rise to a wide variety of case studies that look at the different uses to which models have been put in specific scientific contexts. By exploring current debates on the use and building of models via cutting-edge examples drawn from physics and biology, the book provides broad insight into the methodology of modelling in the natural sciences. It pairs specific arguments with introductory material relating to the ontology and the function of models, and provides some historical context to the debates as well as a sketch of general positions in the philosophy of scientific models in the process.
Human Nature and the Limits of Science
Author: John DupréPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199248060
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Dupré warns that our understanding of human nature is being distorted by two faulty and harmful forms of pseudo-scientific thinking. He claims it is important to resist scientism - an exaggerated conception of what science can be expected to do.