Why believe in the findings of science? John Ziman argues that scientific knowledge is not uniformly reliable, but rather like a map representing a country we cannot visit. He shows how science has many elements, including alongside its experiments and formulae the language and logic, patterns and preconceptions, facts and fantasies used to illustrate and express its findings. These elements are variously combined by scientists in their explanations of the material world as it lies outside our everyday experience. John ...
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Why believe in the findings of science? John Ziman argues that scientific knowledge is not uniformly reliable, but rather like a map representing a country we cannot visit. He shows how science has many elements, including alongside its experiments and formulae the language and logic, patterns and preconceptions, facts and fantasies used to illustrate and express its findings. These elements are variously combined by scientists in their explanations of the material world as it lies outside our everyday experience. John Ziman's book offers at once a valuably clear account and a radically challenging investigation of the credibility of scientific knowledge, searching widely across a range of disciplines for evidence about the perceptions, paradigms and analogies on which all our understanding depends.
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Add this copy of Reliable Knowledge: an Exploration of the Grounds for to cart. $16.16, good condition, Sold by Anybook rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Lincoln, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1979 by Cambridge University Press.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in fair condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 550grams, ISBN: 0521220874.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 550grams, ISBN: 0521220874.
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Very Good. Reliable Knowledge offers a valuably clear account and a radically challenging investigation of the credibility of scientific knowledge. Series: Canto original series. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: PDZ. Dimension: 228 x 152. Weight in Grams: 48. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good. 1978. hardcover.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Vg-hardcover. 192pp. Sturdy binding, text unmarked. Soil spot to front endpaper, and prelims show shallow indentation marks, not affecting the body of the text. Boards clean and square. DJ unclipped, yellowed at flaps, rubbed. NOT ex-lib. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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8vo, hardcover. Fine condition in near fine dj. Contents bright, crisp & clean, unread; dj glossy w/ slight crinkle at upper spine from storage. ix, 197 p.
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