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Science wars : what scientists know and how they know it / Steven L Goldman.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Great courses | The great courses | The Great CoursesPublication details: Chantilly, Va. : Teaching Co., 2006.Description: 2 volumes ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 1598032089
  • 9781598032086
Other title:
  • What scientists know and how they know it
Uniform titles:
  • The Great Courses
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 370
LOC classification:
  • LB 14.6 G619s 2006
Contents:
v. 1. Lecture 1. Knowledge and truth are age-old problems -- lecture 2. Competing visions of the scientific method -- lecture 3. Galileo, the Catholic Church, and truth -- lecture 4. Isaac Newton's theory of the universe -- Lecture 5. Science vs. philosophy in the 17th century -- lecture 6. Locke, Hume, and the path to skepticism -- lecture 7. Kant restores certainty -- lecture 8. Science, society, and the age of reason -- lecture 9. Science comes of age in the 19th century -- lecture 10. Theories need not explain -- lecture 11. Knowledge as a product of the active mind -- lecture 12. Trading reality for experience. v.2. Lecture 13. Scientific truth in the early 20th century -- lecture 14. Two new theories of scientific knowledge -- lecture 15. Einstein and Bohr redefine reality -- lecture 16. Truth, ideology, and thought collectives -- lecture 17. Kuhn's revolutionary image of science -- lecture 18. Challenging mainstream science from within -- Lecture 19. Objectivity under attack -- lecture 20. Scientific knowledge as a social construct -- lecture 21. New definitions of objectivity -- lecture 22. Science wars of the late 20th century -- lecture 23. Intelligent design and the scope of science -- lecture 24. Truth, history, and citizenship
Summary: Presents lectures (each 30 minutes in length) by Steven L. Goldman discussing various aspects of science.
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"Lecture transcript and course guidebook"--Cover.

v. 1. Lecture 1. Knowledge and truth are age-old problems -- lecture 2. Competing visions of the scientific method -- lecture 3. Galileo, the Catholic Church, and truth -- lecture 4. Isaac Newton's theory of the universe -- Lecture 5. Science vs. philosophy in the 17th century -- lecture 6. Locke, Hume, and the path to skepticism -- lecture 7. Kant restores certainty -- lecture 8. Science, society, and the age of reason -- lecture 9. Science comes of age in the 19th century -- lecture 10. Theories need not explain -- lecture 11. Knowledge as a product of the active mind -- lecture 12. Trading reality for experience. v.2. Lecture 13. Scientific truth in the early 20th century -- lecture 14. Two new theories of scientific knowledge -- lecture 15. Einstein and Bohr redefine reality -- lecture 16. Truth, ideology, and thought collectives -- lecture 17. Kuhn's revolutionary image of science -- lecture 18. Challenging mainstream science from within -- Lecture 19. Objectivity under attack -- lecture 20. Scientific knowledge as a social construct -- lecture 21. New definitions of objectivity -- lecture 22. Science wars of the late 20th century -- lecture 23. Intelligent design and the scope of science -- lecture 24. Truth, history, and citizenship

Presents lectures (each 30 minutes in length) by Steven L. Goldman discussing various aspects of science.

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