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Getting to Know the World Scientifically - An Objective View (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
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Getting to Know the World Scientifically - An Objective View (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
Series: Synthese Library, 423
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This undergraduate textbook introduces some fundamental issues in
philosophy of science for students of philosophy and science
students. The book is divided into two parts. Part 1 deals with
knowledge and values. Chap. 1 presents the classical conception of
knowledge as initiated by the ancient Greeks and elaborated during
the development of science, introducing the central concepts of
truth, belief and justification. Aspects of the quest for
objectivity are taken up in the following two chapters. Moral
issues are broached in Chap. 4, which discusses some aspects of the
use and abuse of science, taking up the responsibilities of
scientists in properly conducting their business and
decision-makers in their concerns with the import of science for
society. Part 2 contrasts the view of scientific progress as the
rejecting of old hypotheses and theories and replacing them with
new ones, represented by Karl Popper, with the conception of
progress as accumulating knowledge, saving as much as possible from
older theories, represented by Pierre Duhem. A concluding chapter
defends the natural attitude of taking the theories of modern
science to be literally true, i.e. realism, in the face of
arguments drawn partly from the history of scientific progress in
criticism of this stance.
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