The knowledge machine: how irrationality created modern science
"A paradigm-shifting work that revolutionizes our understanding of the origins and structure of science. Captivatingly written, interwoven with tantalizing illustrations and historical vignettes ranging from Newton's alchemy to quantum mechanics to the storm surge of Hurricane Sandy, Micha...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "A paradigm-shifting work that revolutionizes our understanding of the origins and structure of science. Captivatingly written, interwoven with tantalizing illustrations and historical vignettes ranging from Newton's alchemy to quantum mechanics to the storm surge of Hurricane Sandy, Michael Strevens's wholly original investigation of science asks two fundamental questions: Why is science so powerful? And why did it take so long, two thousand years after the invention of philosophy and mathematics, for the human race to start using science to learn the secrets of nature? The Knowledge Machine's radical answer is that science calls on its practitioners to do something irrational: by willfully ignoring religion, theoretical beauty, and, especially, philosophy-essentially stripping away all previous knowledge-scientists embrace an unnaturally narrow method of inquiry, channeling unprecedented energy into observation and experimentation. Like Yuval Harari's Sapiens or Thomas Kuhn's 1962 classic, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, The Knowledge Machine overturns much of what we thought we knew about the origins of the modern world"-- |
| Beschreibung: | x, 350 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten 25 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781631491375 |
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| adam_text | CONTENTS introduction: the knowledge MACHINE I I. THE GREAT METHOD DEBATE 1. Unearthing the Scientific Method 13 2. Human Frailty 41 3. The Essential Subjectivity of Science 66 II. HOW SCIENCE WORKS 4. The Iron Rule of Explanation 89 5. Baconian Convergence 105 6. Explanatory Ore 120 7. The Drive for Objectivity 152 8. The Supremacy of Observation 173 III. WHY SCIENCE TOOK SO LONG 9. Science’s Strategic Irrationality 201 10. The War against Beauty 209 11. The Advent of Science 239
x CONTENTS IY. SCIENCE NOW 12. Building the Scientific Mind 255 13. Science and Humanism 269 14. Care and Maintenance of the Knowledge Machine 278 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 29I GLOSSARY OF NOVEL TERMS 293 NOTES 295 REFERENCES 32I LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 33I INDEX 335
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CONTENTS introduction: the knowledge MACHINE I I. THE GREAT METHOD DEBATE 1. Unearthing the Scientific Method 13 2. Human Frailty 41 3. The Essential Subjectivity of Science 66 II. HOW SCIENCE WORKS 4. The Iron Rule of Explanation 89 5. Baconian Convergence 105 6. Explanatory Ore 120 7. The Drive for Objectivity 152 8. The Supremacy of Observation 173 III. WHY SCIENCE TOOK SO LONG 9. Science’s Strategic Irrationality 201 10. The War against Beauty 209 11. The Advent of Science 239
x CONTENTS IY. SCIENCE NOW 12. Building the Scientific Mind 255 13. Science and Humanism 269 14. Care and Maintenance of the Knowledge Machine 278 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 29I GLOSSARY OF NOVEL TERMS 293 NOTES 295 REFERENCES 32I LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 33I INDEX 335 |
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