The matter of facts : skepticism, persuasion, and evidence in science / Gareth Leng and Rhodri Ivor...
The matter of facts : skepticism, persuasion, and evidence in science / Gareth Leng and Rhodri Ivor...
The matter of facts : skepticism, persuasion, and evidence in science / Gareth Leng and Rhodri Ivor Leng.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2020]
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G 2020/2619
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English
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xv, 360 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
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volume
Contents
The norms of science, and its structure -- Popper and Kuhn, and their conceptions of what science is -- Laboratory life : Bruno Latour and rhetoric in science -- Is the scientific paper a fraud? The place of hypotheses and their falsification -- The birth of neuroendocrinology and the "stuff of lege...
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Publisher
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2020]
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Massachusetts
Date Published
[2020]
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Summary
"Modern science faces a series of problems that undermine confidence in its reliability. To solve these problems, we must reflect on what makes science work and what leads it astray. This book is about Science, its strengths and weaknesses. The papers that scientists write form a vast resource of evidence and theory that is doubling about every ten...
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The matter of facts : skepticism, persuasion, and evidence in science / Gareth Leng and Rhodri Ivor Leng.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2020/2619
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74VKaPxzwgMM
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ISBN
9780262043885 hardcover
0262043882 hardcover
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500
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991024315915502626
