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Science in the Looking Glass - E. Brian Davies

Science in the Looking Glass

What Do Scientists Really Know?

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
306 Seiten
2007
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-921918-6 (ISBN)
CHF 55,95 inkl. MwSt
How do scientific conjectures become laws? Why do some laws turn out to be wrong? Why does proof mean different things in different sciences? Experience shows that disentangling scientific knowledge from opinion is harder than one might expect. Full of illuminating examples and quotations, this book brings alive issues at the heart of all science.
How do scientific conjectures become laws? Why does proof mean different things in different sciences? Do numbers exist, or were they invented? Why do some laws turn out to be wrong?
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 defence of the view that mathematics was invented rather than discovered. While experience has shown that disentangling knowledge from opinion and aspiration is a hard task, this book provides a clear guide to the difficulties.
Full of illuminating examples and quotations, and with a scope ranging from psychology and evolution to quantum theory and mathematics, this book brings alive issues at the heart of all science.

Professor E. B. Davies Department of Mathematics King's College London

1. Perception and Language ; 2. Theories of the Mind ; 3. Arithmetic ; 4. How Hard can Problems get? ; 5. Pure Mathematics ; 6. Mechanics and Astronomy ; 7. Probability and Quantum Theory ; 8. Is Evolution a Theory? ; 9. Against Reductionism ; 10. Some Final Thoughts

Erscheint lt. Verlag 28.7.2007
Zusatzinfo numerous halftones and line drawings
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 233 mm
Gewicht 480 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Natur / Technik
Mathematik / Informatik Mathematik Geschichte der Mathematik
Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10 0-19-921918-4 / 0199219184
ISBN-13 978-0-19-921918-6 / 9780199219186
Zustand Neuware
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