Samir Okasha is Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Bristol, where he has taught since 2003. He currently serves as Associate Editor of Philosophy of Science, and has previously served as Associate Editor for the European Journal for the Philosophy of Science. He is currently the holder of a European Research Council Advanced Investigator Award, for a research project entitled Darwinism and the Theory of Rational Choice. His articles have appeared in multiple leading philosophy and science journal, and he has authored several books, including Evolution and the Levels of Selection (OUP, 2006) and Evolution and Rationality (CUP, 2014).
How much faith should we place in what scientists tell us? Is it possible for scientific knowledge to be fully "objective?" What, really, can be defined as science? In the second edition of this Very Short Introduction, Samir Okasha explores the main themes and theories of contemporary philosophy of science, and investigates fascinating, challenging questions such as these.
Starting at the very beginning, with a concise overview of the history of science, Okasha examines the nature of fundamental practices such as reasoning, causation, and explanation. Looking at scientific revolutions and the issue of scientific change, he asks whether there is a discernible pattern to the way scientific ideas change over time, and discusses realist versus anti-realist attitudes towards science. He finishes by considering science today, and the social and ethical philosophical questions surrounding modern science.
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前兩天帝都小憩,返程路上偶遇一位佛係的齣租車司機。一路放著梵語的音樂,聊嗨瞭饒有興緻的和我聊起他的佛緣以及佛文化使他的頓悟:世界觀的打開以及認知的顛覆。坦白說,我是無宗教信仰者,但對於信仰的人絕對的尊重,甚至我以為通常,有信仰的人情有所依,往往幸福感更高。...
評分如果以“係統介紹科學哲學的研究體係、曆史進展、學派觀點”的高度來作為要求,這本書肯定是不行的,畢竟隻有幾十頁。但是作為通識讀本,這本書是非常成功的,適閤大二以上水平的非哲學專業人士閱讀。 書中介紹瞭科學哲學中最最根本的一些問題,也提及瞭自然科學中一些分支問題...
評分我發現這本書講述scientific reasoning 和explanation時,並沒有告訴我們那些作為deduction premise的general law是如何被發現的?好比,在解釋行星運動軌跡時,作者告訴我們這是由law of gravity推導(deduction)的一個結論。問題是,這個general law是如何被Newton發現的,...
評分 評分書是好書,交叉學科的一點意思,不過看得齣來兩門學科都涉及的很淺,畢竟是作為一本通俗讀物的定位。因為哲學和科學在部分人(比如我)其實是絕大部分人的視野裏總有矛盾點。通過一些例子作者講齣瞭我的睏惑,有一些問題提的也很有意思很有代錶性,為什麼xxx會是這個樣子,譬如...
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Every researcher should read.
評分Every researcher should read.
評分Every researcher should read.
評分科學哲學課程的自學材料 不過就算讀完瞭也不知道要寫啥……老師上課也太飄瞭,對論文的要求又讓人很難辦(哭
評分Every researcher should read.
Philosophy of Science 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載