Nigel Sanitt

Routledge Revivals: Science as a Questioning Process (1996) (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Science as a Questioning Process evaluates scientific theories through from Darwinian evolution to relativity, and from quantum theory to cosmology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351380904
• Artikelnr.: 49366066

Autorenporträt

Nigel Sanitt

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 1.1. Presuppositions in Science 1.2. Invariance 1.3.
Causality 2. Theory Construction 2.1. Hierarchies and Networks 2.2.
Questioning 2.3. Theory as a Relationship Between Questions 3. Graph Theory
3.1. Introduction 3.2. Terminology 3.3. Scientific Theories 3.4. The Right
Questions? 3.5. Open-endedness of Questions 3.6. Acyclic Nature of
Connections 4. Theory Evolution 4.1. Scientific Progress 4.2. Scientific
Explanation 4.3. Theory Change and Comparison 4.4. Question Reformulation
and 'Black-Boxing' 4.5. Demarcation Between Questions and Answers 5.
Subjective Nature of Science 5.1. Cartesian View of Science 5.2.
Translation from Observations and Concepts to Questions 5.3. Relation 5.4.
Social Studies of Science 5.5. Scientometrics 6. Evolution and Intelligence
6.1. Evolution of Questioning Ability 6.2. Computer Simulation and
Artificial Intelligence 6.3. Neural Nets 6.4. Curiosity 6.5. Structuralism
7. Theories and Questions 7.1. Quantum Mechanics 7.2. Relativity 7.3.
Zetetic Analysis 8. Theories in the Making 8.1. Dark Matter 8.2. Anthropic
Principle 8.3. Theory of Everything 9. Darwinian Evolution 9.1.
Introduction 9.2. Darwin's Theory 9.3. The Extended Phenotype 10.
Literature and Science 10.1. Introduction 10.2. Fictional Entities 10.3.
Scientific Entities 10.4. Fictional and Scientific Entities: A Comparison
10.5. Beauty 10.6. Scientific Metaphor 10.7. Explanation and Understanding
10.8. Interrogative Aspects of Literature 11. Epilogue