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Black Boxes - How Science Turns Ignorance Into Knowledge (Hardcover)
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Black Boxes - How Science Turns Ignorance Into Knowledge (Hardcover)
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Textbooks and other popular venues commonly present science as a
progressive "brick-by-brick" accumulation of knowledge and facts.
Despite its hallowed history and familiar ring, this depiction is
nowadays rejected by most specialists. There currently are two
competing models of the scientific enterprise: reductionism and
antireductionism. Neither provides an accurate depiction of the
productive interaction between knowledge and ignorance, supplanting
the old metaphor of the "wall" of knowledge. This book explores an
original conception of the nature and advancement of science. Marco
J. Nathan's proposed shift brings attention to a prominent, albeit
often neglected, construct-the black box-which underlies a
well-oiled technique for incorporating a productive role of
ignorance and failure into the acquisition of empirical knowledge.
The black box is a metaphorical term used by scientists for the
isolation of a complex phenomenon that they have deliberately set
aside or may not yet fully understand. What is a black box? How
does it work? How do we construct one? How do we determine what to
include and what to leave out? What role do boxes play in
contemporary scientific practice? Nathan's monograph develops an
overarching framework for thinking about black boxes and discusses
prominent historical cases that used it, including Darwin's view of
inheritance in his theory of evolution and the "stimulus-response
model" in psychology, among others. By detailing some fascinating
episodes in the history of biology, psychology, and economics,
Nathan revisits foundational questions about causation,
explanation, emergence, and progress, showing how the insights of
both reductionism and antireductionism can be reconciled into a
fresh and exciting approach to science.
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