Uncertain Knowledge : An Image of Science for a Changing World (Paperback)

Preface; 1. Introduction; Part I. The Nature of Science: 2. Levels of cognitive activity; 3. Facts in frameworks; 4. Rationality, irrationality and relativism; 5. Knowledge and reality; 6. A new account of the scientific process; Part II. Does Science Have Distinctive Qualities?: 7. What, if anything, is distinctive about science?; 8. How is good science distinguished from bad science?; 9. A theory of the pathologies of science; Part III. Changing Science in a Changing World?: 10. What are acceptable variations of present science?; 11. And in the long term?; Appendix; References.