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发表于2024-05-15
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What is science? Is there a real difference between science and myth? Is science objective? Can science explain everything? This Very Short Introduction provides a concise overview of the main themes of contemporary philosophy of science. Beginning with a short history of science to set the scene, Samir Okasha goes on to investigate the nature of scientific reasoning, scientific explanation, revolutions in science, and theories such as realism and anti-realism. He also looks at philosophical issues in particular sciences, including the problem of classification in biology, and the nature of space and time in physics. The final chapter touches on the conflicts between science and religion, and explores whether science is ultimately a good thing.
With an enriched overall review of the history of science and philosophy of science, the book written in easily-comprehensible English is recommended to both academic and layman readers, although I find the author's critique of Popper is weak and unconvincing and his putting economy and sociology into the category of science is highly questionable
评分从休谟的deduction/induction到thomas kuhn的paradigm, 重点在前五章,讲得很好很清楚。启蒙/多元的本质是信仰体系(所谓paradigm)的换代/不同。进步就是paradigm shift.(每次读休谟都是享受~
评分学校推荐给像我这样layman的休闲入门读物,期待作者讲Philosophy of Biology
评分在多大看完的.平时关注实验和数据比较多,所以里面讨论太过理论的部分并没有触动我.印象比较深刻的算是最后部分讨论科学和宗教的.
评分科学家的地位颇似婆罗门——知识和真理的垄断者,被贴上科学标签的事物都招来盲目崇拜。有何不可?科学是最直接的现世利益提供者,“信科学,得至乐”的概念深得人心一点都不奇怪。但是,科学家掌握的知识是否真正反映了客观现实?追随者出于私欲的深信不疑跟科学强调的价值中立(value-free)是否冲突?科学探索方法本身局限性能否引领人走向真理?这些问题,哲学家更有发言权。有哲学家对人类知识下过最狠的诅咒“认识永远是有条件的,是受有限之经验制约的,如果理性把相对的、有限的经验绝对化,自以为已经把握了整体、全部或无限,就会陷入一种假象。”某种意义上,哲学是科学崇拜狂潮中最后的清明和良心。
我发现这本书讲述scientific reasoning 和explanation时,并没有告诉我们那些作为deduction premise的general law是如何被发现的?好比,在解释行星运动轨迹时,作者告诉我们这是由law of gravity推导(deduction)的一个结论。问题是,这个general law是如何被Newton发现的,...
评分 评分什么是philosophy of science呢? 要回答这个问题似乎要先回答什么是philosophy, 什么是science. 如果是这样的话,这本小书就无法写成了。更不可能进入“very short introduction系列了” 作者Samir巧妙地用维特更斯坦的方法巧妙滴绕开了冗长而又歧义的定义。先用常识下定义,...
评分 评分Philosophy of Science pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024