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Making Prehistory

Name: Making Prehistory
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781107406384
Price: 58.72 EUR
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Historical Science and the Scientific Realism Debate

Автор: Derek Turner

Език:

Корици: С меки корици

Издател: Cambridge University Press

Наличност: Външен склад

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Scientists often make surprising claims about things that no one can observe. In physics, chemistry,...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Derek Turner

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2012

страници

238

EAN

9781107406384

ISBN

1107406382

Enbook ID

02051576

Издател

Cambridge University Press

Теглоt

330

Размери

152 x 229 x 13

Пълно описание

Scientists often make surprising claims about things that no one can observe. In physics, chemistry, and molecular biology, scientists can at least experiment on those unobservable entities, but what about researchers in fields such as paleobiology and geology who study prehistory, where no such experimentation is possible? Do scientists discover facts about the distant past or do they, in some sense, make prehistory? In this 2007 book Derek Turner argues that this problem has surprising and important consequences for the scientific realism debate. His discussion covers some of the main positions in philosophy of science - realism, social constructivism, empiricism, and the natural ontological attitude - and shows how they relate to issues in paleobiology and geology. His original and thought-provoking book will be of wide interest to philosophers and scientists alike.