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How does science work? Does it tell us what the world is "really" like? What makes it different from other ways of understanding the universe? In Theory and Reality , Peter Godfrey-Smith addresses these questions by taking the reader on a grand tour of one hundred years of... read more
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- Kuhn: Add a description of this character.
- Popper
- Lakatos
- Feyerabend
- Laudan
- Quine
- Merton
- Kitcher
- Goodman
- Latour
- Carl Hempel
- Van Fraassen
- Boyle
- Bayes
- Schaffer
- Hull
- Wittgenstein
- Sokal
- Bloor
- Darwin
- Longino
- Einstein
- Chargaff
- Galison
- Schlick
- Kant
- Skinner
- Tolman
- David Hume
- Gould
- Heidegger
- Neurath
- Dewey
- Pettenkofer
- Rudolf Carnap
- Hrdy
- Keller
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This book is a survey of roughly one hundred years of argument about the nature of science.
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- Peter Godfrey-Smith (Author)
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 501
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