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Science and Its Ways of Knowing
John Hatton, the University of California-Berkeley
Paul B. Plouffe, the University of California-Berkeley

ISBN-10: 0132055767
ISBN-13:  9780132055765

Publisher:  Addison-Wesley
Copyright:  1997
Format:  Paper; 150 pp
Published:  11/26/1996
Status: Instock


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Appropriate as a supplemental reader for majors-level introduction to science courses as well as introductory courses in all sciences — biology, chemistry, physics, and the geosciences.

This broad collection of accessible essays helps students develop a fuller appreciation of the nature of science and scientific knowledge in general and of their own discipline specialty within it. The focus throughout is on the relationships in science between fact and theory, about the nature of scientific theory, and about the kinds of claims on truth that science makes.


Features

  • Invites students to go beyond the confines of their particular scientific disciplines and to think about science in more general terms — as a way of looking at (and thinking about) the natural world and as an attempt to understand it.
  • Arranges essays according to three essential aspects of scientific practice:

    • Method.

    • Theory.

    • Discovery.

  • Explores questions such as:

    • What constitutes a scientific theory?

    • What is the purpose of theory in science?

    • In what sense can it be said that a scientific theory illustrates the collaborative nature of science?

  • Offers a balanced mix of general discussion and specific cases.
  • Provides section introductions and questions that help students see connections between/among essays — and disciplines.


Table of Contents



Preface/Acknowledgments.


General Information.

I. ON SCIENTIFIC METHOD.

Introduction.

Can We Know the Universe?, Carl Sagan.

On Scientific Method, Robert Pirsig.

A Method of Inquiry, George F. Kneller.

The So-called Scientific Method, Henry H. Bauer.

The Germs of Dissent: Louis Pasteur and the Origins of Life, Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch.

How Fermi Would Have Fixed It, Hans Christian von Baeyer.

Sensory Function in the Harbor Seal, Deane Renouf.

II. DEVELOPING A THEORY.

Introduction.

Does Theory Ever Become Fact?, Charles M. Wynn.

My Position, Stephen Hawking.

The Aesthetic Equation, Hans Christian von Baeyer.

What's Wrong with the New Physics?, Robert Oldershaw.

Science: Conjectures and Refutations, Karl Popper.

Evolution as Fact and Theory, Stephen Jay Gould.

Einstein: The Thinking That Led to the Theory of Relativity, Max Wertheimer.

III. CONTEXTS OF DISCOVERY.

Introduction.

Setting the Stage for Discovery, Robert S. Root-Bernstein.

Preface from Toward the Habit of Truth, Mahlon Hoagland.

The Making of a Discovery, Anne Sayre.

Fission, Luis Alvarez.

A Feeling for the Organism, Evelyn Fox Keller.

Learning to See, Samuel Hubbard Scudder.

Million-Year-Old Cells, George Poinar and Roberta Poinar.



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