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110519s2010 xx 00 eng d |
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Acc#41511 |
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9781405195638 |
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Philippine Baptist Theological Seminary |
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RTL Q 125 |
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D517 2010 |
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DeWitt, Richard |
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Worldviews : an introduction to the history and philosophy of Science / |
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Richard DeWitt. |
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West Sussex, United Kingdom : |
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Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, |
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©2010. |
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xi, 376 p. ; 25 cm. |
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Contents<br/>Part I: Fundamental Issues<br/>1. Worldviews<br/>2. Truth<br/>3. Empirical Facts and Philosophical/Conceptual Facts<br/>4. Confirming and Disconfirming Evidence and Reasoning <br/>5. The Quine-Duhem Thesis and Implications for Scientific Method <br/>6. Philosophical Interlude: Problems and Puzzles of Induction <br/>7. Falsifiability <br/>8. Instrumentalism and Realism <br/>Part II: The Transition from the Aristotelian Worldview to the Newtonian Worldview <br/>9. The Structure of the Universe on the Aristotelian Worldview <br/>10. The Preface to Ptolemy’s Almagest: The Earth as Spherical, Stationary, and at the Center of the Universe<br/>11. Astronomical Data: The Empirical Facts <br/>12. Astronomical Data: The Philosophical/Conceptual Facts <br/>13. The Ptolemaic System <br/>14. The Copernican System <br/>15. The Tychonic System <br/>16. Kepler’s System <br/>17. Galileo and the Evidence from the Telescope <br/>18. A Summary of Problems Facing the Aristotelian Worldview<br/>19. Philosophical and Conceptual Connections in the Development of the New Science <br/>20. Overview of the New Science and the Newtonian Worldview<br/>21. Philosophical Interlude: What is a Scientific Law? <br/>22. The Development of the Newtonian Worldview, 1700-1900<br/>Part III: Recent Developments in Science and Worldviews<br/>23. The Special Theory of Relativity <br/>24. The General Theory of Relativity <br/>25. Overview of the Empirical Facts, Mathematics, and Interpretations of Quantum Theory <br/>26. Quantum Theory and Locality: EPR, Bell’s Theorem, and the Aspect Experiments<br/>27. Overview of the Theory of Evolution <br/>28. Philosophical and Conceptual Implications of Evolution <br/>29. Worldviews: Concluding Thoughts <br/> |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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SCIENCE |
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HISTORY |
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SCIENCE |
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PHILOSOPHY |
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Circulation Books |
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