Uncertain Knowledge: An Image of Science for a Changing World

ISBN: 0521560047

Author: Dolby, R. G. A.

Condition: New

Product Description This book introduces and develops an integrated view of science as a varied human activity rather than an abstract intellectual process, asking significant questions about the nature and limits of scientific knowledge. The author uses a technique of "cognitive play," which creates and explores new links between the ideas and results of contemporary history, philosophy and sociology of science. New ideas and approaches are applied to a wide range of case studies, many of them from controversial and contested science. Historians and sociologists of science, and anyone interested in the history, philosophy and social context of science will find this a fascinating evaluation of controversial and contested science. Review "This book is a wide-ranging discussion of the nature and uniqueness of science. ...this book is a useful addition to science studies literature. It should be read as a thought-provoking...treatment of science...." Stephen Zehr, Isis Book Description This book explores the image of science in the modern world.