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What is scientific knowledge? : an introduction to contemporary epistemology of science / edited by Kevin McCain ad Kostas Kampourakis

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Routledge, 2020Description: xiv, 313 pagesContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781138570153
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 501
Contents:
Part I. How is scientific knowledge generated?
How many scientists does it take to have knowledge? / Jeroen de Ridder
What attitude should scientists have? Good academic practice as a precondition for the production of knowledge / Thomas A. C. Reydon
How do medical researchers make causal inferences? / Olaf Dammann, Ted Poston, and Paul Thagard
How do explanations lead to scientific knowledge? / Kevin McCain
What is scientific understanding and how can it be achieved? / Henk W. de Regt and Christoph Baumberger
Part II. What is the nature of scientific knowledge?
What are scientific concepts? / Theodore Arabatzis
How can we tell science from pseudoscience? / Stephen Law
How do we know that 2 + 2 = 4? / Carrie S. I. Jenkins
Is scientific knowledge special? Plus ca change, plus cest la meme chose / Richard Fumerton
Can scientific knowledge be measured by numbers? Hanne Anderson
Part III. Does bias affect our access to scientific knowledge?
Why do logically incompatible beliefs seem psychologically compatible? Science, pseudoscience, religion, and superstition / Andrew Shtulman and Andrew Young
Do our intuitions mislead us? The role of human bias in scientific inquiry / Susan A. Gelman and Kristan A. Marchale
Can scientific knowledge sift the Wheat from the Tares? A brief history of bias (and fears about bias) in science / Erik L. Peterson
What grounds do we have for the validity of scientific findings? The new worries about science / Janet A. Kourany
Is science really value free and objective? From objectivity to scientific integrity / Matthew J. Brown
Part IV. Is scientific knowledge limited?
Should we trust what our scientific theories say? / Martin Curd and Dana Tulodziecki
What are the limits of scientific explanation? / Martin Curd and Dana Tulodziecki
Should we accept scientism? The argument from self-referential incoherence / Sara Gottlieb and Tania Lombrozo
How are the uncertainties in scientific knowledge represented in the public sphere? The genetics of intelligence as a case study / Kostas Kampourakis
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. How is scientific knowledge generated?

How many scientists does it take to have knowledge? / Jeroen de Ridder

What attitude should scientists have? Good academic practice as a precondition for the production of knowledge / Thomas A. C. Reydon

How do medical researchers make causal inferences? / Olaf Dammann, Ted Poston, and Paul Thagard

How do explanations lead to scientific knowledge? / Kevin McCain

What is scientific understanding and how can it be achieved? / Henk W. de Regt and Christoph Baumberger

Part II. What is the nature of scientific knowledge?

What are scientific concepts? / Theodore Arabatzis

How can we tell science from pseudoscience? / Stephen Law

How do we know that 2 + 2 = 4? / Carrie S. I. Jenkins

Is scientific knowledge special? Plus ca change, plus cest la meme chose / Richard Fumerton

Can scientific knowledge be measured by numbers? Hanne Anderson

Part III. Does bias affect our access to scientific knowledge?

Why do logically incompatible beliefs seem psychologically compatible? Science, pseudoscience, religion, and superstition / Andrew Shtulman and Andrew Young

Do our intuitions mislead us? The role of human bias in scientific inquiry / Susan A. Gelman and Kristan A. Marchale

Can scientific knowledge sift the Wheat from the Tares? A brief history of bias (and fears about bias) in science / Erik L. Peterson

What grounds do we have for the validity of scientific findings? The new worries about science / Janet A. Kourany

Is science really value free and objective? From objectivity to scientific integrity / Matthew J. Brown

Part IV. Is scientific knowledge limited?

Should we trust what our scientific theories say? / Martin Curd and Dana Tulodziecki

What are the limits of scientific explanation? / Martin Curd and Dana Tulodziecki

Should we accept scientism? The argument from self-referential incoherence / Sara Gottlieb and Tania Lombrozo

How are the uncertainties in scientific knowledge represented in the public sphere? The genetics of intelligence as a case study / Kostas Kampourakis

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