Science in the Looking Glass:What Do Scientists Really Know?

Science in the Looking Glass:What Do Scientists Really Know?
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Publisher : OUP Oxford
Total Pages : 312
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ISBN-10 : 9780199219186
ISBN-13 : 0199219184
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Book Synopsis Science in the Looking Glass:What Do Scientists Really Know? by : E. Brian Davies

Download or read book Science in the Looking Glass:What Do Scientists Really Know? written by E. Brian Davies and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-06-28 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do scientific conjectures become laws? Why does proof mean different things in different sciences? Do numbers exist, or were they invented? Why do some laws turn out to be wrong?In this wide-ranging book, Brian Davies discusses the basis for scientists' claims to knowledge about the world. He looks at science historically, emphasizing not only the achievements of scientists from Galileo onwards, but also their mistakes. He rejects the claim that all scientific knowledge is provisional, by citing examples from chemistry, biology and geology. A major feature of the book is its defence of the view that mathematics was invented rather than discovered. While experience hasshown that disentangling knowledge from opinion and aspiration is a hard task, this book provides a clear guide to the difficulties.Full of illuminating examples and quotations, and with a scope ranging from psychology and evolution to quantum theory and mathematics, this book brings alive issues at the heart of all science.


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