Chris Edwards has written some of the most popular and important articles in the history of Skeptic magazine. In this book, his nimble mind traverses across a wide range of topics with a unique skeptical perspective.
- Michael Shermer, publisher, Skeptic Magazine, monthly columnist for Scientific American, and author of The Believing Brain,
In 1620, the British politician and philosopher Francis Bacon published Novum Organum (New Method) and formalized the previously scattershot methods of scientific experimentation into a method able to be replicated. In due time, the Western world would build an intellectual empire on the basis of Baconâs concepts of scientific research. The Westâs university and its scientific and medical systems all stem from Baconâs philosophy.
But after nearly four hundred years; it is time for something new again. In mathematics, theoretical physics, and philosophy, a quiet revolution has begun. Thinkers who can study across disciplines and form analogies, who take seriously the History and Philosophy of Science and its problems of metaphysics and epistemology, have been making impressive breakthroughs. These methods have been, up until now, as random as the process of experimentation was in Baconâs day. This timely book has come to formalize these methods, build upon Baconâs scientific research model, and to ultimately go beyond it.
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This timely book has come to formalize these methods, build upon Baconâs scientific research model, and to ultimately go beyond it.
Introduction
Chapter 1: The First Novum Organum
Chapter 2: The First Part of Novum Organum in Context
Chapter 3: History as a Connect-the-Dots Game
Chapter 4: Paradigm Shift
Chapter 5: Novum Organumâs Impact
Part II: The New New Method
Chapter 6: Everything Analogy
Chapter 7: Model Dependent Realism
Chapter 8: Mathematics
Chapter 9: Examples From the Field of Analogy and Consilience
Conclusion: The New New Atlantis
References
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781475810004
Publisert
2014-04-10
Utgiver
Vendor
Rowman & Littlefield
Vekt
181 gr
Høyde
228 mm
Bredde
154 mm
Dybde
8 mm
AldersnivĂĽ
P, 06
SprĂĽk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
126
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