From certainty to uncertainty: the story of science and ideas in the twentieth century

From Certainty to Uncertainty: The Story

📁 From Certainty to Uncertainty: The Story of Science and Ideas in the Twentieth Century

✍ F. David Peat 📂 Library 📅 2002 🌐 English

Early theorists believed that in science lay the promise of certainty. Built on a foundation of fact and constructed with objective and trustworthy tools, science produced knowledge. But science has also shown us that this knowledge will always be fundamentally incomplete and that a true understandi

From Certainty to Uncertainty: The Story

📁 From Certainty to Uncertainty: The Story of Science and Ideas in the Twentieth Century

✍ F. David Peat 📂 Library 📅 2002 🏛 Joseph Henry Press 🌐 English

From certainty to uncertainty: the story

📁 From certainty to uncertainty: the story of science and ideas in the twentieth century

✍ Peat, F. David 📂 Library 📅 2002 🏛 Joseph Henry Press 🌐 English

In this ... book, [the author] examines the basic philosophic certainty that characterized the thinking of humankind through the nineteenth century and contrasts it with the startling fall of certainty in the twentieth. Indeed, the nineteenth century was marked by a boundless optimism and confidence

From Certainty to Uncertainty: The Story

📁 From Certainty to Uncertainty: The Story of Science and Ideas in the Twentieth Century

✍ F. David Peat 📂 Library 📅 2002 🏛 Joseph Henry Press 🌐 English

Early theorists believed that in science lay the promise of certainty. Built on a foundation of fact and constructed with objective and trustworthy tools, science produced knowledge. But science has also shown us that this knowledge will always be fundamentally incomplete and that a true understandi

The Evolution of Scientific Knowledge: F

📁 The Evolution of Scientific Knowledge: From Certainty to Uncertainty

✍ Edward R. Dougherty 📂 Library 📅 2016 🏛 SPIE 🌐 English

This book aims to provide scientists and engineers, and those interested in scientific issues, with a concise account of how the nature of scientific knowledge evolved from antiquity to a seemingly final form in the Twentieth Century that now strongly limits the knowledge that people would like to g

The Certainty of Uncertainty

📁 The Certainty of Uncertainty

✍ Poerksen, Bernhard;Koeck, Alison;Koeck, Wolfram 📂 Library 📅 2013 🏛 Andrews UK 🌐 English

Nothing that can be said is independent of us. Whatever can be said is coloured by our dreams and aspirations, by the way our brain works, by human nature and human culture. Whoever claims to know or to observe is - according to the central constructivist assumption - inescapably biased.  This book