Reliable Knowledge : An Exploration of the Grounds for Belief in Science

Name: Reliable Knowledge
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521220873
Price: 3600 KES
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ISBN: 9780521220873

by John M. Ziman

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Format Hardback

Book Series Canto original series

ISBN-10 0521220874

ISBN-13 9780521220873

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jan 12th, 1979

Print length 224 Pages

Weight 48 grams

Product Classification: Popular science

KSh 3,600.00

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Reliable Knowledge offers a valuably clear account and a radically challenging investigation of the credibility of scientific knowledge.

Why believe in the findings of science? John Ziman argues that scientific knowledge is not uniformly reliable, but rather like a map representing a country we cannot visit. He shows how science has many elements, including alongside its experiments and formulae the language and logic, patterns and preconceptions, facts and fantasies used to illustrate and express its findings. These elements are variously combined by scientists in their explanations of the material world as it lies outside our everyday experience. John Ziman''s book offers at once a valuably clear account and a radically challenging investigation of the credibility of scientific knowledge, searching widely across a range of disciplines for evidence about the perceptions, paradigms and analogies on which all our understanding depends.

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