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What Science Knows
From UNSW's James Franklin comes.....
What Science Knows - And How It Knows It
To scientists, the tsunami of relativism, scepticism, and postmodernism
that washed through the humanities in the twentieth century was all water
off a duck’s back. Science remained committed to objectivity and continued
to deliver remarkable discoveries and improvements in technology.
In What Science Knows, James Franklin explains in captivating and
straightforward prose how science works its magic. He begins with an
account of the nature of evidence, where science imitates but extends
commonsense and legal reasoning in basing conclusions solidly on inductive
reasoning from facts.
After a brief survey of the furniture of the world as science sees it –
including causes, laws, dispositions and force fields as well as material
things – Franklin reveals colourful examples of discoveries in the
natural, mathematical, and social sciences and the reasons for believing
them. He examines the limits of science, giving special attention both to
mysteries that may be solved by science, such as the origin of life, and
those that may in principle be beyond the reach of science, such as the
meaning of ethics.
What Science Knows
will appeal to anyone who wants a sound, readable, and well-paced
introduction to the intellectual edifice that is science. On the other
hand, it will not please the enemies of science, whose willful
misunderstandings of scientific method and the relation of evidence to
conclusions Franklin mercilessly exposes.
Due Early January -
order here
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