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What Is Science?
An Interdisciplinary Perspective
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23.11.2009
Summary
In What is Science?, Jaffe seeks to define science conceptually. Understanding our environment and ourselves is and has been the most important intellectual activity of mankind. It was only after the emergence of the empirical science (i.e. experiment philosophy) that humanity achieved accelerated social, economic, and technological progress. The emergence of science made possible the industrial revolution and the development of a multitude of scientific disciplines, all very successful in advancing our understanding of the world and of ourselves. What is the key that makes science more efficient in advancing our knowledge than any other heuristics?
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Copyright year
2009
Publication date
23.11.2009
ISBN-Print
978-0-7618-4673-4
ISBN-Online
978-0-7618-4674-1
Publisher
Hamilton Books, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
104
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Contents No access
Warning No access
Preface: In Search of a Multidimensional Heuristics No access
Acknowledgements No access
Introduction No access
Chapter One. The Ascent of Homo sapiens scientiarum No access Pages 1 - 21
Chapter Two. The Ascent of Empirical Science No access Pages 22 - 38
Chapter Three. Modern Science No access Pages 39 - 62
Chapter Four. What Science is Not No access Pages 63 - 72
Chapter Five. Science and Society No access Pages 73 - 88
Chapter Six. The Dangers Ahead No access Pages 89 - 101
Chapter Seven. Natural Selection and the Scientific Method No access Pages 102 - 104
