The Rationality of Science

The Rationality of Science
Author: W. H. Newton-Smith
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 294
Release: 1981
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0415058775

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This volume is a comprehensive collection of critical essays on The Taming of the Shrew, and includes extensive discussions of the play's various printed versions and its theatrical productions. Aspinall has included only those essays that offer the most influential and controversial arguments surrounding the play. The issues discussed include gender, authority, female autonomy and unruliness, courtship and marriage, language and speech, and performance and theatricality.

The Advancement of Science

The Advancement of Science
Author: Philip Kitcher
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 432
Release: 1993
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN: 0195096533

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Beginning from an outline of classical views in philosophy of science, this text attempts to understand the notions of scientific progress, scientific objectivity, and the growth of knowledge.

Is Scientific Knowledge Rational?

Is Scientific Knowledge Rational?
Author: Halil Rahman Açar
Publisher:
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2008
Genre: Bilim Felsefesi
ISBN:

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Conjectures and Refutations

Conjectures and Refutations
Author: Karl Raimund Popper
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 616
Release: 2002
Genre: Bilgi- Teori
ISBN: 9780415285933

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As one of Karl Popper's most wide-ranging and popular works, Conjectures and Refutations provides the clearest statement of the fundamental idea that guided his work: that our knowledge grows by an unending process of trial and error.

Rationality in Science, Religion, and Everyday Life

Rationality in Science, Religion, and Everyday Life
Author: Mikael Stenmark
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-09-15
Genre: Rationalism
ISBN: 9780268041052

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Rationality in Science, Religion, and Everyday Life is an introduction to the major issues in critical thinking in regard to science, religion, and cognitive science.

Science, Truth, And Meaning: From Wonder To Understanding

Science, Truth, And Meaning: From Wonder To Understanding
Author: Benjamin L J Webb
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 721
Release: 2022-04-07
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9811231915

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Science, Truth, and Meaning presents a scientific and philosophical examination of our place in the world. It also celebrates how diverse, scientific knowledge is interconnected and reducible to common foundations.The book focuses on aspects of scientific truth that relate to our understanding of reality, and confronts whether truth is absolute or relative to what we are. Hence, it assesses the meaning of the scientific deductions we have made and how they have profoundly influenced our conception of life and existence.The subtitle is 'From Wonder to Understanding', which is a paraphrased quote from Einstein, who said that the search for scientific truth is ' ... a continual flight from wonder to understanding'.In addressing the goal of advancing our understanding of our place in the world, this book also reveals the development and details of diverse sciences, their connections and achievements, and that while perhaps the same fundamental questions exist, they are seen in the light of an ever-refined scientific perspective on reality.Why the book is needed: many popular science books have been written, aimed at different levels of subject expertise, and nearly all treat their specific subject in isolation. Few attempt to link different sciences to their common foundations, and those that do are written by physicists. Since human knowledge is derived by, and relates to, the biological organism that human beings are, then such a book written from a biological perspective represents a novel perspective on the integration of science, and addresses new questions. This is such a book.Impressive aspects: the depth, breadth, consistency, and clarity of the work.

The Myth of the Framework

The Myth of the Framework
Author: Karl Popper
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2014-04-23
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1135974802

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In a career spanning sixty years, Sir Karl Popper has made some of the most important contributions to the twentieth century discussion of science and rationality. The Myth of the Framework is a new collection of some of Popper's most important material on this subject. Sir Karl discusses such issues as the aims of science, the role that it plays in our civilization, the moral responsibility of the scientist, the structure of history, and the perennial choice between reason and revolution. In doing so, he attacks intellectual fashions (like positivism) that exagerrate what science and rationality have done, as well as intellectual fashions (like relativism) that denigrate what science and rationality can do. Scientific knowledge, according to Popper, is one of the most rational and creative of human achievements, but it is also inherently fallible and subject to revision. In place of intellectual fashions, Popper offers his own critical rationalism - a view that he regards both as a theory of knowlege and as an attitude towards human life, human morals and democracy. Published in cooperation with the Central European University.

Progress and Its Problems

Progress and Its Problems
Author: Larry Laudan
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 267
Release: 1978-10-27
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0520037219

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"A book that shakes philosophy of science to its roots. Laudan both destroys and creates. With detailed, scathing criticisms, he attacks the 'pregnant confusions' in extant philosophies of science. The progress they espouse derives from strictly empirical criteria, he complains, and this clashes with historical evidence. Accordingly, Laudan constructs a remedy from historical examples that involves nothing less than the redefinition of scientific rationality and progress . . . Surprisingly, after this reshuffling, science still looks like a noble-and progressive-enterprise ... The glory of Laudan's system is that it preserves scientific rationality and progress in the presence of social influence. We can admit extra-scientific influences without lapsing into complete relativism. . . a must for both observers and practitioners of science." --Physics Today "A critique and substantial revision of the historic theories of scientific rationality and progress (Popper, Kuhn, Lakatos, Feyerabend, etc.). Laudan focuses on contextual problem solving effectiveness (carefully defined) as a criterion for progress, and expands the notion of 'paradigm' to a 'research tradition,' thus providing a meta-empirical basis for the commensurability of competing theories. From this perspective, Laudan suggests revised programs for history and philosophy of science, the history of ideas, and the sociology of science. A superb work, closely argued, clearly written, and extensively annotated, this book will become a widely required text in intermediate courses."--Choice