 Worldviews: An Introduction to the History and Philosophy of Science
ISBN: 978-1-4051-1620-6
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344 pages
February 2004, Wiley-Blackwell
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Worldviews: An Introduction to the History and Philosophy of Science is an ideal text for those coming to the history and philosophy of science for the first time.
- Covers the key historical developments and philosophical themes and topics that have impacted upon our scientific view of the world around us.
- Introduces fundamental conceptual issues, including truth, empirical facts and philosophical/conceptual “facts”, falsifiability, and instrumentalism /realism.
- Analyzes the transition from the Aristotelian worldview to the Newtonian worldview.
- Explores challenges to our own western worldview brought on by developments in twentieth-century science, most notably relativity theory and quantum theory.
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