1st Edition
Explaining Science's Success Understanding How Scientific Knowledge Works
By John Wright
Copyright 2013
208 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
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Routledge
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Paul Feyeraband famously asked, what's so great about science? One answer is that it has been surprisingly successful in getting things right about the natural world, more successful than non-scientific or pre-scientific systems, religion or philosophy. Science has been able to formulate theories that have successfully predicted novel observations. It has produced theories about parts of reality... Read more
Introduction 1. Some surprising phenomena 2. Some unsatisfactory explanations of the phenomena 3. A defeasible a priori justification of induction 4. The independence of theory from data 5. Some more success-conducive properties of theories 6. Newton's law of motion and law of gravitation 7. Special relativity 8. Mendelian genetics 9. Conclusion
Biography
Wright, John
