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Understanding Science - An Introduction to Concepts and Issues (Hardcover, New)
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Understanding Science - An Introduction to Concepts and Issues (Hardcover, New)
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Humanity reaps the many advantages of science while bemoaning the
frequent misapplications and abuses of modern technology. Yet far
too many of us admit to possessing little if any real knowledge of
what scientists actually do, why they do it, or whether they should
be otherwise occupied in more productive pursuits. Nonscientists
need to appreciate the nature, purpose, and goals of science.
Conversely, the narrow focus of many science enthusiasts fails to
recognize that science cannot help but interact with sources of
knowledge beyond its realm, placing scientific endeavors within a
swirling caldron of competing knowledge claims. In Understanding
Science noted author and researcher Arthur N. Strahler, whose
career in science spans more than half a century, fills this double
void by offering insights into both the philosophy and the
sociology of science. Part One presents a basic outline of the
concepts and issues that have occupied scientists for years: the
Nature of Science: Laws, Explanations, Theories, and Hypotheses;
Prediction, Testing, Corroboration, and Falsification; the
Complex/Historical Sciences; Determinism, Randomness, Chaos, and
Quantum Mechanics; the New Philosophy of Science; and
Pseudoscience, both specific cases and the phenomenon in general.
Part Two concentrates on science as it interacts with and is
distinguished from other knowledge fields. Here readers begin to
see the religious, political, cultural, and social forces within
which science developed and out of which it carved its special
identity: the Major Classes of Knowledge; the Nature and Place of
Logic and Mathematics; Religion and the God Concept; Ethics,
Aesthetics, and Ideologies; How Science Impacts
theReligious/Ethical Systems; and Is Creationism Religion or
Pseudoscience? Unless each of us is willing to set aside our
respective fears to gain a better understanding of what science is
and how it can be carefully distinguished from other types of
beliefs and claims, the ignorance, confusion, and distortion that
has tainted society's view of science will remain a fundamental
obstacle to gaining the knowledge that will help us solve pressing
problems of daily life. Understanding Science offers new hope that
this goal is within reach.
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