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The Common Sense Of Science
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Author : Jacob Bronowski
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2011-12-15
The Common Sense Of Science written by Jacob Bronowski and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-15 with Science categories.
Jacob Bronowski was, with Kenneth Clarke, the greatest popularizer of serious ideas in Britain between the mid 1950s and the early 1970s. Trained as a mathematician, he was equally at home with painting and physics, and wrote a series of brilliant books that tried to break down the barriers between 'the two cultures'. He denounced 'the destructive modern prejudice that art and science are different and somehow incompatible interests'. He wrote a fine book on William Blake while running the National Coal Board's research establishment. The Common Sense of Science, first published in 1951, is a vivid attempt to explain in ordinary language how science is done and how scientists think. He isolates three creative ideas that have been central to science: the idea of order, the idea of causes and the idea of chance. For Bronowski, these were common-sense ideas that became immensely powerful and productive when applied to a vision of the world that broke with the medieval notion of a world of things ordered according to their ideal natures. Instead, Galileo, Huyghens and Newton and their contemporaries imagined 'a world of events running in a steady mechanism of before and after'. We are still living with the consequences of this search for order and causality within the facts that the world presents to us.
Common Sense Science And Scepticism
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Author : Alan Musgrave
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1993-02-11
Common Sense Science And Scepticism written by Alan Musgrave and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-02-11 with Philosophy categories.
Can we know anything for certain? Dogmatists think we can, sceptics think we cannot, and epistemology is the great debate between them. Some dogmatists seek certainty in the deliverances of the senses. Sceptics object that the senses are not an adequate basis for certain knowledge. Other dogmatists seek certainty in the deliverances of pure reason. Sceptics object that rational self-evidence is no guarantee of truth. This book is an introductory and historically-based survey of the debate, siding for the most part with scepticism to show that the desire to vanquish it has often led to doctrines of idealism or anti-realism. Scepticism, science and common sense produce another view, fallibilism or critical rationalism: although we can have little or no certain knowledge, as the sceptics maintain, we can and do have plenty of conjectural knowledge. Fallibilism incorporates an uncompromising realism about perception, science, and the nature of truth.
The Common Sense Of Science
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Author : Jacob Bronowski
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1953
The Common Sense Of Science written by Jacob Bronowski and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1953 with History categories.
Discusses science as a characteristic part of human activity and as an effort to render the world predictable.
Scientific Challenges To Common Sense Philosophy
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Author : Rik Peels
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2020-05-27
Scientific Challenges To Common Sense Philosophy written by Rik Peels and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-27 with Philosophy categories.
Common sense philosophy holds that widely and deeply held beliefs are justified in the absence of defeaters. While this tradition has always had its philosophical detractors who have defended various forms of skepticism or have sought to develop rival epistemological views, recent advances in several scientific disciplines claim to have debunked the reliability of the faculties that produce our common sense beliefs. At the same time, however, it seems reasonable that we cannot do without common sense beliefs entirely. Arguably, science and the scientific method are built on, and continue to depend on, common sense. This collection of essays debates the tenability of common sense in the face of recent challenges from the empirical sciences. It explores to what extent scientific considerations—rather than philosophical considerations—put pressure on common sense philosophy. The book is structured in a way that promotes dialogue between philosophers and scientists. Noah Lemos, one of the most influential contemporary advocates of the common sense tradition, begins with an overview of the nature and scope of common sense beliefs, and examines philosophical objections to common sense and its relationship to scientific beliefs. Then, the volume features essays by scientists and philosophers of science who discuss various proposed conflicts between commonsensical and scientific beliefs: the reality of space and time, about the nature of human beings, about free will and identity, about rationality, about morality, and about religious belief. Notable philosophers who embrace the common sense tradition respond to these essays to explore the connection between common sense philosophy and contemporary debates in evolutionary biology, neuroscience, physics, and psychology.
Fun Science
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Author : Charlie McDonnell
language : en
Publisher: Hardie Grant Publishing
Release Date : 2016-10-06
Fun Science written by Charlie McDonnell and has been published by Hardie Grant Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-06 with Reference categories.
Welcome, fellow humans (and others), to the the world of FUN SCIENCE! I’m Charlie, also known across the internet as charlieissocoollike. In my book, I take you on an awesome journey through the cosmos, beginning with the Big Bang through to the Solar System and the origins of life on Earth, all the way down to the particles that make up everything around us (including you and me!). Expect frequent digressions, tons of illustrations of not-so-sciencey things (NB a microwave flying through space), and pages packed with my all time favourite mind-bending science facts. So, get ready for a faster-than-the-speed of-light (OK, not quite) tour of all of the best and most interesting things that science has to offer us... and most importantly: WELCOME TO THE UNIVERSE! (Written by a science fan NOT a scientist!)
Beyond Common Sense
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Author : Eugene Borgida
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2008-04-30
Beyond Common Sense written by Eugene Borgida and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-30 with Psychology categories.
Beyond Common Sense addresses the many important and controversial issues that arise from the use of psychological and social science in the courtroom. Each chapter identifies areas of scientific agreement and disagreement, and discusses how psychological science advances our understanding of human behavior beyond common sense. Features original chapters written by some of the leading experts in the field of psychology and law including Elizabeth Loftus, Saul Kassin, Faye Crosby, Alice Eagly, Gary Wells, Louise Fitzgerald, Craig Anderson, and Phoebe Ellsworth The 14 issues addressed include eyewitness identification, gender stereotypes, repressed memories, Affirmative Action and the death penalty Commentaries written by leading social science and law scholars discuss key legal and scientific themes that emerge from the science chapters and illustrate how psychological science is or can be used in the courts
The Dialogical Mind
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Author : Ivana Marková
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2016-09
The Dialogical Mind written by Ivana Marková and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Marková offers a dialogical perspective to problems in daily life and professional practices involving communication, care, and therapy.
Common Sense
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Author : Frits Van Holthoon
language : en
Publisher: University Press of America
Release Date : 1987-12-18
Common Sense written by Frits Van Holthoon and has been published by University Press of America this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987-12-18 with Literary Criticism categories.
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The Common Sense Of Science
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Author : Jacob Bronowski
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1951
The Common Sense Of Science written by Jacob Bronowski and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1951 with Philosophy categories.
The Common Sense Of The Milk Question
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Author : John Spargo
language : en
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Release Date : 2022-10-27
The Common Sense Of The Milk Question written by John Spargo and has been published by Legare Street Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-27 with Health & Fitness categories.
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