Introduction to the Philosophy of Science - Hardcover
This balanced and up-to-date introduction to the philosophy of science covers all the main topics in the area, and initiates the student into the moral and social reality of science. O'Hear discusses the growth of knowledge of science, the status of scientific theories and their relationship to observational data, the extent to which scientific theories rest on unprovable paradigms, and the nature of scientific explanations. In later chapters he considers probability, scientific reductionism, the relationship between science and technology, and the relationship between scientific and other values.
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This book is a balanced and up-to-date introduction to the philosophy of science. It covers all the main topics within the area, as well as helping the student to consider the wider moral and social reality of science.
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Anthony O'Hear is at University of Bradford.
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0198248148
- ISBN 13 9780198248149
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages250
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