Download or read book The Truth of Science written by Roger G. Newton and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's not a scientific truth that has come into question lately but the truth--the very notion of scientific truth. Bringing a reasonable voice to the culture wars that have sprung up around this notion, this book offers a clear and constructive response to those who contend, in parodies, polemics and op-ed pieces, that there really is no such thing as verifiable objective truth--without which there could be no such thing as scientific authority. A distinguished physicist with a rare gift for making the most complicated scientific ideas comprehensible, Roger Newton gives us a guided tour of the intellectual structure of physical science. From there he conducts us through the understanding of reality engendered by modern physics, the most theoretically advanced of the sciences. With its firsthand look at models, facts, and theories, intuition and imagination, the use of analogies and metaphors, the importance of mathematics (and now, computers), and the "virtual" reality of the physics of micro-particles, The Truth of Science truly is a practicing scientist's account of the foundations, processes, and value of science. To claims that science is a social construction, Newton answers with the working scientist's credo: "A body of assertions is true if it forms a coherent whole and works both in the external world and in our minds." The truth of science, for Newton, is nothing more or less than a relentless questioning of authority combined with a relentless striving for objectivity in the full awareness that the process never ends. With its lucid exposition of the ideals, methods, and goals of science, his book performs a great feat in service of this truth.

Download or read book Making Truth written by Theodore L. Brown and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new perspective on how scientists reason about the world, design and interpret experiments and communicate with one another and with the larger society outside science.

Download or read book The Way of Science written by Dennis R. Trumble and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2013-07-16 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How science can convey a profound sense of wonder, connectedness, and optimism about the human condition. This book makes a compelling case that now more than ever the public at large needs to appreciate the critical-thinking tools that science has to offer and be educated in basic science literacy. The author emphasizes that the methods and facts of science are accessible to everyone, and that, contrary to popular belief, understanding science does not require extraordinary intelligence. He also notes that scientific rationality and critical thinking are not only good for our physical well-being but also are fully in sync with our highest moral codes. He illustrates the many ways in which the scientific worldview offers a profound sense of wonder, connectedness, and optimism about the human condition, an inspiring perspective that satisfies age-old spiritual aspirations. At a time of daunting environmental challenges and rampant misinformation, this book provides a welcome corrective and reason to hope for the future.

Download or read book An Instinct for Truth written by Robert T. Pennock and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the scientific mindset—such character virtues as curiosity, veracity, attentiveness, and humility to evidence—and its importance for science, democracy, and human flourishing. Exemplary scientists have a characteristic way of viewing the world and their work: their mindset and methods all aim at discovering truths about nature. In An Instinct for Truth, Robert Pennock explores this scientific mindset and argues that what Charles Darwin called “an instinct for truth, knowledge, and discovery” has a tacit moral structure—that it is important not only for scientific excellence and integrity but also for democracy and human flourishing. In an era of “post-truth,” the scientific drive to discover empirical truths has a special value. Taking a virtue-theoretic perspective, Pennock explores curiosity, veracity, skepticism, humility to evidence, and other scientific virtues and vices. He explains that curiosity is the most distinctive element of the scientific character, by which other norms are shaped; discusses the passionate nature of scientific attentiveness; and calls for science education not only to teach scientific findings and methods but also to nurture the scientific mindset and its core values. Drawing on historical sources as well as a sociological study of more than a thousand scientists, Pennock's philosophical account is grounded in values that scientists themselves recognize they should aspire to. Pennock argues that epistemic and ethical values are normatively interconnected, and that for science and society to flourish, we need not just a philosophy of science, but a philosophy of the scientist.

Download or read book The Truth Of Science written by Roger G. Newton and published by . This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Truth about Science and Religion written by Fraser Fleming and published by Lutterworth Press. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion has been a major influence on the development of science over the past two millennia. The Truth about Science and Religion tells the story of their interaction, examining fundamental topics such as the origin of the universe, evolutionary processes, Christian beliefs, the history of science, and what being human really means from both a scientific and a religious perspective. The Truth about Science and Religion aims to help explore personal views on science and religion, offering questions for discussion at the end of each chapter. The book provides the historical and scientific background as well as the philosophical insight needed to think through issues of science and religion and their influence on personal beliefs. Metaphors, comparisons and analogies are used to simplify complex topics such that any reader can engage with the thoughts and questions posed. Unlike other books in this field, The Truth about Science and Religion follows a chronological scheme, beginning with the origin of the universe and life itself before discussing matters of the human condition, the life of Jesus, and stories of several great scientists to regain a unified view of science and religion in today's world.

Download or read book The Truth about Science written by Kathryn Kelsey and published by NSTA Press. This book was released on 2009-06-09 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Science Truth and Democracy written by Philip Kitcher and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Striving to re-direct the philosophy of science, this controversial book examines the role of science in shaping our lives.

Download or read book The Truth about Science written by Kathryn A. Kelsey and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Scientific Truth the Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth written by John R Helliwell and published by . This book was released on 2024-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There is a limited understanding amongst scientists, students and the public about realizing trust in scientific findings. This should be a paramount objective, or is it only about career ambition? What is the role of the individual? Scientists and the public need to know more about the link between the philosophy of science and the science research methods. There is a limited understanding of why accuracy is important and that it is not the same as precision. Also, there is often the need to measure an approximation of a real system and the classic case is reductionism in biology versus whole organism biology. The author brings these topics together in terms of trusting in science"--

Download or read book Science and Truth written by Louis Allen Higley and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Reality of Science written by vincent Ramoshaba and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is basically all about science but based on my ideas concerning the world and it's scientific inheritance in particular. I give ideas based on diseases, world challenges,politics,religion, etc. The book is interesting with a whole new scientific ideas.

Download or read book The Truth about Christian Science written by James Henry Snowden and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fictional Death and Scientific Truth written by Kerstin Bergman and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-11-02 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this article, the author explores the relationship between science and truth in forensic crime fiction by analysis of narrative and media-specific constituents of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000–) and Patricia Cornwell’s The Scarpetta Factor (2009). Despite the different media, both are found to establish a strong bond between science and truth, and readers/viewers are encouraged to assume that this also is the case in the external world. This article originally appeared in Clues: A Journal of Detection, Volume 30, Issue 1.

Download or read book Wondrous Truths written by J.D. Trout and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh, daring, and genuine alternative to the traditional story of scientific progress Explaining the world around us, and the life within it, is one of the most uniquely human drives, and the most celebrated activity of science. Good explanations are what provide accurate causal accounts of the things we wonder at, but explanation's earthly origins haven't grounded it: we have used it to account for the grandest and most wondrous mysteries in the natural world. Explanations give us a sense of understanding, but an explanation that feels right doesn't mean it is true. For every true explanation, there is a false one that feels just as good. A good theory's explanations, though, have a much easier path to truth. This push for good explanations elevated science from medieval alchemy to electro-chemistry, or a pre-inertial physics to the forces underlying nanoparticles. And though the attempt to explain has existed as long as we have been able to wonder, a science timeline from pre-history to the present will reveal a steep curve of theoretical discovery that explodes around 1600, primarily in the West. Ranging over neuroscience, psychology, history, and policy, Wondrous Truths answers two fundamental questions-Why did science progress in the West? And why so quickly? J.D. Trout's answers are surprising. His central idea is that Western science rose above all others because it hit upon successive theories that were approximately true through an awkward assortment of accident and luck, geography and personal idiosyncrasy. Of course, intellectual ingenuity partially accounts for this persistent drive forward. But so too does the persistence of the objects of wonder. Wondrous Truths recovers the majesty of science, and provides a startling new look at the grand sweep of its biggest ideas.

Download or read book Theory and Reality written by Peter Godfrey-Smith and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2003-08 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does science work? Does it tell us what the world is "really" like? What makes it different from other ways of understanding the universe? In Theory and Reality, Peter Godfrey-Smith addresses these questions by taking the reader on a grand tour of one hundred years of debate about science. The result is a completely accessible introduction to the main themes of the philosophy of science. Intended for undergraduates and general readers with no prior background in philosophy, Theory and Reality covers logical positivism; the problems of induction and confirmation; Karl Popper's theory of science; Thomas Kuhn and "scientific revolutions"; the views of Imre Lakatos, Larry Laudan, and Paul Feyerabend; and challenges to the field from sociology of science, feminism, and science studies. The book then looks in more detail at some specific problems and theories, including scientific realism, the theory-ladeness of observation, scientific explanation, and Bayesianism. Finally, Godfrey-Smith defends a form of philosophical naturalism as the best way to solve the main problems in the field. Throughout the text he points out connections between philosophical debates and wider discussions about science in recent decades, such as the infamous "science wars." Examples and asides engage the beginning student; a glossary of terms explains key concepts; and suggestions for further reading are included at the end of each chapter. However, this is a textbook that doesn't feel like a textbook because it captures the historical drama of changes in how science has been conceived over the last one hundred years. Like no other text in this field, Theory and Reality combines a survey of recent history of the philosophy of science with current key debates in language that any beginning scholar or critical reader can follow.

Download or read book Does Science Present the Truth written by Jesuis Laplume and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-03-17 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A number of scientists who do not know what they are talking about are still espousing the supposed fact that Science proves that there is no God and no thought or emotion outside of the brain. This is nonsense and a blatant misuse of Traditional Science. This book "Does Science Present The Truth?" discusses the basis of Traditional Science and the assumptions upon which it is based. It explains the fields in which that sort of Science can still provide useful results and the many areas at the leading edges of many fields of Science where the assumptions are violated and recent Science has had to adapt, on an incident-by-incident basis, the new assumptions needed to explain the results observed by many researchers who are working in a large number of fields. Unfortunately the older scientists who head up scientific societies have refused to admit that revision of the founding assumptions is badly needed and the system is in chaos - actually chaos is one of the concepts that had to be developed outside of Traditional Science. In reality they are asking that these founding assumptions should be considered Dogma and cannot even be discussed, but rather must be taken On Faith. What sort of Science is that when Dogma and dogmatic belief are involved? There was a historical justification for those who started Traditional Science to ignore thought, emotion, prayer and other forms of pure information as no one knew how to measure them. Many believed that measurements confined to the mass and energy arena would be possible without taking those sorts of things into account. Interestingly-enough, we still do not know how to measure those pure information processes even now, although we can infer some by how they affect the brain, the body and some of our experiments in mass and energy flows. This book goes into some detail in identifying both the weaknesses and some of the many strengths in Traditional Science. It also tries to show why making conclusions about things that you do not include, using a useful Science in other areas, is just plain foolish. If I were to ask the question "How much credence would you give to a study that assumed that it was not necessary to include certain things and then used that study to show that they did not exist?" You would be unlikely to give it any. This is the quandary that we live with in Science and spirituality. The cross-over should never have come up because the tools in our Traditional Science do not include any reasonable aspect of the components of spirituality. It is long past time for those who head the elite of Traditional Science to start a discussion of just where existing Science can be used with confidence and where it should not be used at all. Perhaps it is the time to even revisit all of the founding assumptions and revise them as necessary, given several hundred years of evidence building up to support the need for that revision process. Dr. Rupert Sheldrake has written a number of books in this field, with his latest a call for such a review. That book, called "Science Set Free" in the US and "The Science Delusion" in the UK, is very much worth reading. "Does Science Present The Truth?" also includes a list of some of the myriad of books used in developing this author's book. Readers are also invited to visit the Author's website at http: //www.jesuislaplume.com for more references and a better idea of just who this author is and what they are trying to say.