What is Scientific Knowledge? (eBook, PDF)

An Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology of Science
Redaktion: McCain, Kevin; Kampourakis, Kostas

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

What Is Scientific Knowledge? is a much-needed collection of introductory-level chapters on the epistemology of science. Renowned historians, philosophers, science educators, and cognitive scientists have authored 19 original contributions specifically for this volume. The chapters, accessible for students in both philosophy and the sciences, serve as helpful introductions to the primary debates surrounding scientific knowledge. First-year undergraduates can readily understand the variety of discussions in the volume, and yet advanced students and scholars will encounter chapters rich enough to engage their many interests. The variety and coverage in this volume make it the perfect choice for the primary text in courses on scientific knowledge. It can also be used as a supplemental book in classes in epistemology, philosophy of science, and other related areas.

Key features:

* an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the epistemology of science for a wide variety of students (both undergraduate- and graduate-level) and researchers

* written by an international team of senior researchers and the most promising junior scholars

* addresses several questions that students and lay people interested in science may already have, including questions about how scientific knowledge is gained, its nature, and the challenges it faces.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351336611
• Artikelnr.: 56960536

Autorenporträt

Kevin McCain is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA. His published research includes Evidentialism and Epistemic Justification (2014), The Nature of Scientific Knowledge: An Explanatory Approach (2016), and, with Kostas Kampourakis, Uncertainty: How It Makes Science Advance (2019). Kostas Kampourakis is a researcher in science education and a lecturer at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. His most recent authored books are Making Sense of Genes (2017), Turning Points: How Critical Events Have Driven Human Evolution, Life and Development (2018), and, with Kevin McCain, Uncertainty: How It Makes Science Advance (2019). He has also co-edited, with Michael Reiss, Teaching Biology in Schools: Global Research, Issues and Trends (2018).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Part I: How is scientific knowledge generated? 1. How many
scientists does it take to have knowledge? Jeroen de Ridder 2. What
attitude should scientists have? Good academic practice as a precondition
for the production of knowledge Thomas A. C. Reydon 3. How do medical
researchers make causal inferences? Olaf Dammann, Ted Poston, and Paul
Thagard 4. How do explanations lead to scientific knowledge? Kevin McCain
5. 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? 6. What are scientific concepts? Theodore Arabatzis 7. How can
we tell science from pseudoscience? Stephen Law 8. How do we know that
2+2=4? Carrie S. I. Jenkins 9. Is scientific knowledge special? Plus ça
change, plus c'est la même chose Richard Fumerton 10. Can scientific
knowledge by measured by numbers? Hanne Andersen Part III: Does bias affect
our access to scientific knowledge? 11. Why do logically incompatible
beliefs seem psychologically compatible? Science, pseudoscience, religion,
and superstition Andrew Shtulman and Andrew Young 12. Do our intuitions
mislead us? The role of human bias in scientific inquiry Susan A. Gelman
and Kristan A. Marchak 13. Can scientific knowledge sift the wheat from the
tares? A brief history of bias (and fears about bias) in science Erik L.
Peterson 14. What grounds do we have for the validity of scientific
findings? The new worries about science Janet A. Kourany 15. Is science
really value free and objective? From objectivity to scientific integrity
Matthew J. Brown Part IV: Is scientific knowledge limited? 16. Should we
trust what our scientific theories say? Martin Curd and Dana Tulodziecki
17. What are the limits of scientific explanation? Sara Gottlieb and Tania
Lombrozo 18. Should we accept scientism? The argument from self-referential
incoherence Rik Peels 19. How are the uncertainties in scientific knowledge
represented in the public sphere? The genetics of intelligence as a case
study Kostas Kampourakis. Index