Description
| Product ID: | 9781009201889 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | A Philosopher Looks At |
| Title: | A Philosopher Looks at Science |
| Authors: | Author: Nancy Cartwright |
| Page Count: | 222 |
| Subjects: | Philosophy, Philosophy, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge, Popular philosophy, History of ideas, Philosophy of science, Impact of science and technology on society, Popular science, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Popular philosophy, History of ideas, Philosophy of science, Impact of science & technology on society, Popular science |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating What is science and what can it do? This innovative book uses examples from the physical, life, and social sciences to focus on all the products of science and how they work together. It will interest anyone who thinks about science and how it is practised in our society. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-06-30 |
