James C. Zimring

What Science Is and How It Really Works (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Scientific advances have transformed the world. However, science can sometimes get things wrong, and at times, disastrously so. Understanding the basis for scientific claims and judging how much confidence we should place in them is essential for individual choice, societal debates, and development of public policy and laws. We must ask: what is the basis of scientific claims? How much confidence should we put in them? What is defined as science and what is not? This book synthesizes a working definition of science and its properties, as explained through the eyes of a practicing scientist, by integrating advances from philosophy, psychology, history, sociology, and anthropology into a holistic view. Crucial in our political climate, the book fights the myths of science often portrayed to the public. Written for a general audience, it also enables students to better grasp methodologies and helps professional scientists to articulate what they do and why.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108753135
• Artikelnr.: 66180578

Autorenporträt

James C. Zimring is a Professor of Pathology at the University of Virginia where he pursues basic and translational research in the field of transfusion medicine and blood biology. He has an M.D. and also a Ph.D. in Immunology, both awarded from Emory University, Atlanta, and has published over 120 research articles in his field of study. Professor Zimring is the recipient of multiple awards for his research and teaching, and he is an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Part I: 1. The knowledge problem, or what can we really
'know'?; 2. Adding more building blocks of human reasoning to the knowledge
problem; 3. Holistic coherence in thinking, or describing a system of how
humans reason and think; Part II: 4. How scientific reasoning differs from
other reasoning; 5. Natural properties of a rule-governed world, or why
scientists study certain types of things and not others; 6. How human
observation of the natural world can differ from what the world really is;
7. Detection of patterns and associations, or how human perceptions and
reasoning complicate understanding of real-world information; 8. The
association of ideas and causes, or how science figures out what causes
what; Part III: 9. Remedies that science uses to compensate for how humans
tend to make errors; 10. The analysis of a phantom apparition, or has
science really been studied yet?; 11. The societal factor, or how social
dynamics affect science; 12. A holistic world of scientific entities, or
considering the forest and the trees together; 13. Putting it all together
to describe 'what science is and how it really works'.