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Author Jaffe, Klaus

Title What is Science?: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
Published Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 104 pages) : illustrations
Contents Warning; Preface: In Search of a Multidimensional Heuristics; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter One. The Ascent of Homo sapiens scientiarum; Chapter Two. The Ascent of Empirical Science; Chapter Three. Modern Science; Chapter Four. What Science is Not; Chapter Five. Science and Society; Chapter Six. The Dangers Ahead; Chapter Seven. Natural Selection and the Scientific Method
Summary In What is Science?, Jaffe seeks to define science conceptually. Understanding our environment and ourselves is and has been the most important intellectual activity of mankind. It was only after the emergence of the empirical science (i.e. experime
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Subject Science -- Philosophy.
Science -- History.
Science.
Science -- Philosophy.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0761846735
9780761846734
0761846743
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