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Sto caricando le informazioni... Science in the Looking Glass: What Do Scientists Really Know?di E. Brian Davies
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Books this dense intended for the general public ought to be printed in a larger typeface. Actually, I never did figure out how the author pictured his public. He started each subject at a grade school level, and moved quickly to graduate school. Generally there was an area between the 'I've heard this many times, and you aren't saying anything new about it' and the 'you've left me far behind area', where the subject was actually interesting. There were a few really interesting tidbits here and there, but I never flet that he knew where he wanted the book to go. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
In this wide-ranging book, Brian Davies discusses the basis for scientists' claims to knowledge about the world. He looks at science historically, emphasizing not only the achievements of scientists from Galileo onwards, but also their mistakes. He rejects the claim that all scientific knowledge is provisional, by citing examples from chemistry, biology and geology. A major feature of the book is its defense of the view that mathematics was invented rather than discovered. A large number of examples are used to illustrate these points, and many of the deep issues in today's world discussed-from psychology and evolution to quantum theory, consciousness and even religious belief. Disentangling knowledge from opinion and aspiration is a hard task, but this book provided a clear guide to the difficulties. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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