Science Rules
Author | : Peter Achinstein |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2004-09-24 |
ISBN-13 | : 0801879434 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780801879432 |
Rating | : 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Science Rules by : Peter Achinstein
Download or read book Science Rules written by Peter Achinstein and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2004-09-24 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Included is a famous nineteenth-century debate about scientific reasoning between the hypothetico-deductivist William Whewell and the inductivist John Stuart Mill; and an account of the realism-antirealism dispute about unobservables in science, with a consideration of Perrin's argument for the existence of molecules in the early twentieth century.