Understanding How Science Explains The World

Author : Kevin McCain
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781009002585

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Understanding How Science Explains the World by Kevin McCain Pdf

All people desire to know. We want to not only know what has happened, but also why it happened, how it happened, whether it will happen again, whether it can be made to happen or not happen, and so on. In short, what we want are explanations. Asking and answering explanatory questions lies at the very heart of scientific practice. The primary aim of this book is to help readers understand how science explains the world. This book explores the nature and contours of scientific explanation, how such explanations are evaluated, as well as how they lead to knowledge and understanding. As well as providing an introduction to scientific explanation, it also tackles misconceptions and misunderstandings, while remaining accessible to a general audience with little or no prior philosophical training.

Author : Kevin McCain
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781316518175

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Understanding How Science Explains the World by Kevin McCain Pdf

An accessible exploration of scientific explanation and how it leads to knowledge and understanding of the world.

Author : Steven Weinberg
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780062346674

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To Explain the World by Steven Weinberg Pdf

A masterful commentary on the history of science from the Greeks to modern times, by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg—a thought-provoking and important book by one of the most distinguished scientists and intellectuals of our time. In this rich, irreverent, and compelling history, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg takes us across centuries from ancient Miletus to medieval Baghdad and Oxford, from Plato’s Academy and the Museum of Alexandria to the cathedral school of Chartres and the Royal Society of London. He shows that the scientists of ancient and medieval times not only did not understand what we understand about the world—they did not understand what there is to understand, or how to understand it. Yet over the centuries, through the struggle to solve such mysteries as the curious backward movement of the planets and the rise and fall of the tides, the modern discipline of science eventually emerged. Along the way, Weinberg examines historic clashes and collaborations between science and the competing spheres of religion, technology, poetry, mathematics, and philosophy. An illuminating exploration of the way we consider and analyze the world around us, To Explain the World is a sweeping, ambitious account of how difficult it was to discover the goals and methods of modern science, and the impact of this discovery on human knowledge and development.

Author : James William Jones
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780190249380

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Can Science Explain Religion? by James William Jones Pdf

Argues that efforts by the anti-religious to explain and undermine religion through cognitive science are misguided and that these approaches can actually be used to support the belief in and practice of religion.

Author : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-10T22:59:00Z
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9798350039764

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Summary of Samir Okasha's Philosophy of Science by Everest Media, Pdf

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 What is science. According to many, science is the attempt to understand and explain the world we live in. However, this answer is not quite right. Science is not just the collection of activities that are typically labeled science. Rather, it is the shared feature that all the things on that list have in common. #2 Science is the attempt to understand and explain the world we live in. The modern scientific world-view was developed between the years 1500 and 1750, and it was based on the Copernican revolution, which suggested that the sun was the fixed centre of the universe. #3 Science is the attempt to understand and explain the world we live in. The modern scientific world-view was developed between the years 1500 and 1750, and it was based on the Copernican revolution, which suggested that the sun was the fixed centre of the universe. #4 Science is the attempt to understand and explain the world we live in. The modern scientific world-view was developed between the years 1500 and 1750, and it was based on the Copernican revolution, which suggested that the sun was the fixed centre of the universe.

Author : John Lennox
Publisher : The Good Book Company
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781784984120

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Can Science Explain Everything? by John Lennox Pdf

An inspiring new perspective on the science versus religion debate. An inspiring new perspective on the science versus religion debate. Can science explain everything? Many people think so. Science, and the technologies it has spawned, has delivered so much to the world: clean water; more food; better healthcare; longer life. And we live in a time of rapid scientific progress that holds enormous promise for many of the problems we face as humankind. So much so, in fact, that many see no need or use for religion and belief systems that offer us answers to the mysteries of our universe. Science has explained it, they assume. Religion is redundant. Oxford Maths Professor and Christian believer John Lennox offers a fresh way of thinking about science and Christianity that dispels the common misconceptions about both. He reveals that not only are they not opposed, but they can and must mix to give us a fuller understanding of the universe and the meaning of our existence.

Author : Alan G. Gross,Joseph E. Harmon
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226068343

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Science from Sight to Insight by Alan G. Gross,Joseph E. Harmon Pdf

John Dalton’s molecular structures. Scatter plots and geometric diagrams. Watson and Crick’s double helix. The way in which scientists understand the world—and the key concepts that explain it—is undeniably bound up in not only words, but images. Moreover, from PowerPoint presentations to articles in academic journals, scientific communication routinely relies on the relationship between words and pictures. In Science from Sight to Insight, Alan G. Gross and Joseph E. Harmon present a short history of the scientific visual, and then formulate a theory about the interaction between the visual and textual. With great insight and admirable rigor, the authors argue that scientific meaning itself comes from the complex interplay between the verbal and the visual in the form of graphs, diagrams, maps, drawings, and photographs. The authors use a variety of tools to probe the nature of scientific images, from Heidegger’s philosophy of science to Peirce’s semiotics of visual communication. Their synthesis of these elements offers readers an examination of scientific visuals at a much deeper and more meaningful level than ever before.

Author : John Brockman
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780062230188

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This Explains Everything by John Brockman Pdf

Drawn from the cutting-edge frontiers of science, This Explains Everything will revolutionize your understanding of the world. What is your favorite deep, elegant, or beautiful explanation? This is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org ("The world's smartest website"—The Guardian), posed to the world's most influential minds. Flowing from the horizons of physics, economics, psychology, neuroscience, and more, This Explains Everything presents 150 of the most surprising and brilliant theories of the way of our minds, societies, and universe work. Jared Diamond on biological electricity • Nassim Nicholas Taleb on positive stress • Steven Pinker on the deep genetic roots of human conflict • Richard Dawkins on pattern recognition • Nobel Prize-winning physicist Frank Wilczek on simplicity • Lisa Randall on the Higgs mechanism • BRIAN Eno on the limits of intuition • Richard Thaler on the power of commitment • V. S. Ramachandran on the "neural code" of consciousness • Nobel Prize winner ERIC KANDEL on the power of psychotherapy • Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on "Lord Acton's Dictum" • Lawrence M. Krauss on the unification of electricity and magnetism • plus contributions by Martin J. Rees • Kevin Kelly • Clay Shirky • Daniel C. Dennett • Sherry Turkle • Philip Zimbardo • Lee Smolin • Rebecca Newberger Goldstein • Seth Lloyd • Stewart Brand • George Dyson • Matt Ridley

Author : Mario BUNGE
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1983-08-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9027716358

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Treatise on Basic Philosophy: Volume 6 by Mario BUNGE Pdf

Author : Ernst Mayr
Publisher : Belknap Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1997-03-22
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015040661657

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This Is Biology by Ernst Mayr Pdf

Mayr (biology, Harvard U.) argues that the physical sciences cannot address many aspects of nature that are unique to life. He offers a vision of science that places biology at the center and restores the primacy of holistic, evolutionary thinking. He also traces the field's history from Aristotle to the present, noting its interactions with the humanities. The glossary includes no pronunciation guide. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 954 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Astronomy
ISBN : 0130434345

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Earth Science by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Industrial arts
ISBN : HARVARD:HXRRFR

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English Mechanics and the World of Science by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HNHL5Z

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Nashotah Scholiast by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Industrial arts
ISBN : NYPL:33433066358882

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English Mechanic and World of Science by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jeremy J. Baumberg
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780691174358

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The Secret Life of Science by Jeremy J. Baumberg Pdf

A revealing and provocative look at the current state of global science We take the advance of science as given. But how does science really work? Is it truly as healthy as we tend to think? How does the system itself shape what scientists do? The Secret Life of Science takes a clear-eyed and provocative look at the current state of global science, shedding light on a cutthroat and tightly tensioned enterprise that even scientists themselves often don't fully understand. The Secret Life of Science is a dispatch from the front lines of modern science. It paints a startling picture of a complex scientific ecosystem that has become the most competitive free-market environment on the planet. It reveals how big this ecosystem really is, what motivates its participants, and who reaps the rewards. Are there too few scientists in the world or too many? Are some fields expanding at the expense of others? What science is shared or published, and who determines what the public gets to hear about? What is the future of science? Answering these and other questions, this controversial book explains why globalization is not necessarily good for science, nor is the continued growth in the number of scientists. It portrays a scientific community engaged in a race for limited resources that determines whether careers are lost or won, whose research visions become the mainstream, and whose vested interests end up in control. The Secret Life of Science explains why this hypercompetitive environment is stifling the diversity of research and the resiliency of science itself, and why new ideas are needed to ensure that the scientific enterprise remains healthy and vibrant.