What is Science? : An Interdisciplinary Perspective

Jaffe, Klaus

University Press of America（2009/11発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 120 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780761846734
• DDC分類 501

Full Description

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?

Contents

Chapter 1 Warning
Chapter 2 Preface: In Search of a Multidimensional Heuristics
Chapter 3 Acknowledgements
Chapter 4 Introduction
Chapter 5 1. The Ascent of Homo sapiens scientiarum
Chapter 6 2. The Ascent of Empirical Science
Chapter 7 3. Modern Science
Chapter 8 4. What Science is Not
Chapter 9 5. Science and Society
Chapter 10 6. The Dangers Ahead
Chapter 11 7. Natural Selection and The Scientific Method