What is science and what can it do? Nancy Cartwright here takes
issue with three common images of science: that it amounts to the
combination of theory and experiment; that all science is basically
reducible to physics; and that science and the natural world which
it pictures are deterministic. The author's innovative and
thoughtful book draws on examples from the physical, life, and
social sciences alike, and focuses on all the products of science -
not just experiments or theories - and how they work together. She
reveals just what it is that makes science ultimately reliable, and
how this reliability is nevertheless still compatible with a view
of nature as more responsive to human change than we might think.
Her book is a call for greater intellectual humility by and within
scientific institutions. It will have strong appeal to anyone who
thinks about science and how it is practised in society.
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