Explaining Science's Success Understanding How Scientific Knowledge Works By: John Wright Publisher: Routledge Print ISBN: 9781844655328, 1844655326 eText ISBN: 9781317544883, 1317544889 Edition: 1st Pages: 256 Copyright year: 2013 Format: EPUB Available from $ 22.38 USD SKU 9781317544883R90 Paul Feyeraband famously asked, what's so great about science? One answer is that it has been surprisingly successful in getting things right about the natural world, more successful than non-scientific or pre-scientific systems, religion or philosophy. Science has been able to formulate theories that have successfully predicted novel observations. It has produced theories about parts of reality that were not observable or accessible at the time those theories were first advanced, but the claims about those inaccessible areas have since turned out to be true. And science has, on occasion, advanced on more or less a priori Download ebook: https://ouo.io/mS8edHq
