What Science Is and How It Really Works

✍ Scribed by James C. Zimring

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 407
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A timely and accessible synthesis of the strengths, weaknesses and reality of science through the eyes of a practicing scientist.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half-title page
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I
1 - The Knowledge Problem, or What Can We Really “Know”?
2 - Adding More Building Blocks of Human Reasoning to the Knowledge Problem
3 - Holistic Coherence in Thinking, or Describing a System of How Humans Reason and Think
Part II
4 - How Scientific Reasoning Differs from Other Reasoning
5 - Natural Properties of a Rule-Governed World, or Why Scientists Study Certain Types of Things and Not Others
6 - How Human Observation of the Natural World Can Differ from What the World Really Is
7 - Detection of Patterns and Associations, or How Human Perceptions and Reasoning Complicate Understanding of Real-World Information
8 - The Association of Ideas and Causes, or How Science Figures Out What Causes What
Part III
9 - Remedies That Science Uses to Compensate for How Humans Tend to Make Errors
10 - The Analysis of a Phantom Apparition, or Has Science Really Been Studied Yet?
11 - The Societal Factor, or How Social Dynamics Affect Science
12 - A Holistic World of Scientific Entities, or Considering the Forest and the Trees Together
13 - Putting It All Together to Describe “What Science Is and How It Really Works”
About the Author
Index