Giere, Ronald N.  | University of Chicago Press

49,950원  | 20100615  | 9780226292137

Many people assume that the claims of scientists are objective truths. This title argues that the acts of observing and theorizing are both matters of perspective - which makes scientific knowledge contingent. It also states that colors do not actually exist in objects.

Giere, Ronald N.  | Chicago

0원  | 20061115  | 9780226292120

Many people assume that the claims of scientists are objective truths. But historians, sociologists, and philosophers of science have long argued that scientific claims reflect the particular historical, cultural, and social context in which those claims were made. The nature of scientific knowledge is not absolute because it is influenced by the practice and perspective of human agents. Scientific Perspectivism argues that the acts of observing and theorizing are both perspectival, and this nature makes scientific knowledge contingent, as Thomas Kuhn theorized forty years ago. Using the example of color vision in humans to illustrate how his theory of "perspectivism" works, Ronald N. Giere argues that colors do not actually exist in objects; rather, color is the result of an interaction between aspects of the world and the human visual system. Giere extends this argument into a general interpretation of human perception and, more controversially, to scientific observation, conjecturing that the output of scientific instruments is perspectival. Furthermore, complex scientific principlessuch as Maxwell's equations describing the behavior of both the electric and magnetic fieldsmake no claims about the world, but models based on those principles can be used to make claims about specific aspects of the world. Offering a solution to the most contentious debate in the philosophy of science over the past thirty years, Scientific Perspectivism will be of interest to anyone involved in the study of science.

Giere, Ronald N.  | University of Chicago Press

61,600원  | 19900515  | 9780226292069

Explaining Science challenges fundamental presuppositions of both the philosophy and the sociology of science. Finding a naturalistic middle ground between positivism and relativism, Ronald N. Giere suggests that scientific theories are families o...

RONALD N. GIERE, JOHN BICKLE, ROBERT F. MAULDIN  | 소화

28,800원  | 20080421  | 9788984103344

이 책은 과학 이론을 모형들의 집합으로 보는 과학철학적 견해를 바탕으로 하여 다양한 유형의 과학적 추론들을 조직적으로 이해, 평가할 수 있는 프로그램들을 개발하고 우리가 일상적 수준에서 접하는 갖가지 과학적 보고 및 주장에 적용하는 방식을 제시하고 있다. 과학적 연구 성과의 이해, 평가 및 활용의 절대적 중요성에 비추어 그 진입 장벽이 높은 과학적 담론에 지식인 일반이 용이하게 접근할 수 있는 채널을 제공하고 있다.

Giere, Ronald N./ Bickle, John/ Mauldin, Robert F.  | Thomson Learning

0원  | 20050715  | 9780155063266

Not everything that claims to be science is. UNDERSTANDING SCIENTIFIC REASONING shows you easy-to-use principles that let you distinguish good science from bad information you encounter in both textbooks and the popular media. And because it uses the same processes that scientists use (but simplified), you'll know you're getting the most reliable instruction around. You'll also learn how to reason through case studies using the same informal logic skills employed by scientists.