The Nature of Science: Integrating Historical, Philosophical, and Sociological Perspectives
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (2011)
| Abstract | The need for scientific literacy -- The origins of accomplishing tasks : from individual to organized efforts -- The earliest comprehensive and rationalistic syntheses -- 4- knowing, doing and the inevitability of curiosity and exploration -- From the transcendent to the temporal-a transformative experience -- From qualities to quantities : the mathematization of nature -- Internalizing naturalistic explanations, benefit or threat? -- Dispensing with philosophy and entertaining limits to human knowledge -- Scientifically speaking, we know a lot, or do we? -- The need for a context -- The rightful place of science in society -- Concluding reflections. | |||||||||
| Keywords | Science Philosophy Science Social aspects EDUCATION / Professional Development | |||||||||
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| Call number | Q181.E695 2011 | |||||||||
| ISBN(s) | 9781442209510 1442209518 | |||||||||
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