Scientific Knowledge and Philosophic Thought - Hardcover

Sir Harold Himsworth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0801833167 ISBN 13: 9780801833168

Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986

Synopsis

Foreword by James D. Watson. Topics include methods of thought, imagination, hypotheses, and more.

About this title

From Library Journal:

This slim volume argues that science and philosophy differ only in methodology, not in subject matter. A remarkable enough claim, but surely it would take a major study, and one providing rigorous analysis in both fields, to make a case for it. Unfortunately, this is not such a study. Neither the methods and subject matter of philosophy (as exemplified by comments on Kant, Hume, Moore, and Popper) nor its traditional problems are adequately treated; the treatment of science is somewhat naive (Bacon's model of how science advances is held up as paradigmatic). The author is a biomedical researcher and member of the American Philosophical Association. Leon H. Brody, U.S. Office of Personnel Management Lib . , Washington, D.C.
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Review:

"Slim, elegantly written, and, in the main, tightly argued book." -- Metascience

About this edition

• Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0801833167
• ISBN 13: 9780801833168
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128