Fact, Faith and Fiction in the Development of Science

The Gifford Lectures Given in the University of St Andrews 1976

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R. Hooykaas

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Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science

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In this posthumouslu published book, Professor R. Hooykaas (1906-1994) conveys a lifetime of historical thought about modes of scientific advance over the centuries. In what variety of ways has the human mind - with all its subjectivity and its capacity for self-deception, but also its piercing gifts of discovery - managed to come to terms with "the whimsical tricks of nature"? Central to this is Hooykaas's distinction between facts (given by nature yet entirely subject to our mode of interpreting them), faith (broad conceptions like the idea of order, of simplicity, or of harmony), and fictions in the sense of those intellectual tools, such as theories and hypotheses and models, which reflect the scientist's creative imagination. Case studies are drawn from the history of all branches of science (including chemistry and the earth sciences) and from antiquity to the 1990s.

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November 30th, 1999

Author

R. Hooykaas

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General (US: Trade)
Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
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Undergraduate

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XVI, 462 p.

Pages

462

Series

Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science

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155x235x26

ISBN-13

9780792357742

Product ID

2051701

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