Introducing Philosophy of Science
A Graphic Guide
Published on 18. June 2015
176 pages
978-1-84831-980-6 (ISBN)
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What do scientists actually do? Is science "value-free"? How has science evolved through history? Where is science leading us? "Introducing Philosophy of Science" is a clear and incisively illustrated map of the big questions underpinning science. It is essential reading for students, the general public, and even scientists themselves.
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- The Nature of the Beast
- Is Science "Absolute Objectivity"?
- Do We Trust Scientists?
- What Do Scientists Actually Do?
- Definitions of Science
- The Golem of Science
- The Contested Territory of Science
- Do Scientists Understand Science?
- Emergence and Development of Science Studies
- Science Studies in the 1960s
- Diverse Critical Approaches
- A Growth Industry
- Conflict within Science Studies
- Criticism from the "Low Church"
- Comparing the Radical Origins
- Why is Science Studies Important?
- A Very Short History of Science
- Fast Forward to the Renaissance.
- The Great March
- Heavenly Sparks
- Planet of the Apes
- Science in the Killing-fields
- Environmental Catastrophe
- Can Scientists Make Mistakes?
- A Question of Paradigms
- Fallen Idols
- The Vienna Circle: Logical Positivism
- The Circle's Influence
- Karl Popper's "falsifiability" Theory
- Against Induction
- Thomas Kuhn's Revolution
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
- Normal Science
- Revolutionary Science
- The Enemy of Science
- In Opposition to Kuhn
- The End of "Dominant Notions"
- Is Kuhn a Radical?
- The Birth of Big Science
- Supporting Big Science
- Feyerabend, the Anarchist
- Anything Goes
- A Free-for-all
- Sociology of Scientific Knowledge
- The Spirit of Science
- The Strong Programme
- The Basics of SSK
- Science as Social Construction
- The Effect of Reality
- The Construction of Objectivity
- The Science Tribe
- Constructionism vs. Strong Programme
- Theory-laden Observations
- The Context of "Tradition"
- Feminist Criticism
- Women in Science
- The Segregation of Women in Science
- The Invisible Woman in the Lab
- Androcentric Science
- Women as Providers
- More Women in Science
- Strong Objectivity
- Responsible Rationality
- Reproductive Labour
- Post-colonial Science Criticism
- Science and Empire
- Imperial Geography
- What Happened Under Colonialism?
- Empirical History of Islamic Science
- Indian and Chinese science
- Rediscovery of Civilizational Science
- Framework for Islamic Science
- Tawheed and Khalifah
- Ibadah: Non-violent Contemplation
- Rediscovering Indian Science
- Walking on Two Legs
- The Western View of Nature
- Other Views of Nature
- Assumption Shape Science
- What is Assumed "Efficient"?
- Assumptions of Genetic Differences
- The Racial Economy of Science
- The "Value" of Science
- The Myth of Neutrality
- Social Epistemology
- What Social Epistemology Asks .
- Science Communication
- Multi-culturalism and Scientific Knowledges
- Science Wars
- In Defence of Science
- Against the "Academic Left"
- Enter, Sokal (stage right)
- Blitzkrieg on Postmodernism
- Beyond the Hoax
- The Public Understanding of Science
- Publicity vs. Accountability
- How Science Has Changed
- The Crux of Funding
- Corporate Funding of Research
- The Profit Motive
- What Direction for Science?
- What Gets Scientific Attention?
- The Focus on "Celebrity Problems"
- Population and Poverty
- Patenting Knowledge
- The Neem Tree
- Appropriation of Indigenous Knowledge
- Intensified Appropriation
- Mode 2 Knowledge
- Consequences of Mode 2 Knowledge
- Uncertainty in Mode 2
- Policy Debates in the Balance
- "Mad Cow" Disease
- The MMR Scare
- Assessing the Bigger Picture
- Statistical Errors
- The Place of Ignorance
- A Choice of Ignorance
- "Ignorance-squared"
- The End of Doubt
- Safety and the Unknowable
- Other GM Risks
- Increasing the Uncertainty Stakes
- Beyond the Normal
- Post-Normal Science
- Selling the Post-Normal Agenda
- PNS vs. Constructionist Analysis
- PNS in Action
- The Precautionary Principle
- Origins of the Precautionary Principle
- Community Research Networks
- The Community Responds .
- Science Shops
- Where Now?
- The Democratic Solution
- Whose Science is It?
- It is Our Science
- Further Reading
- About the Author and Artist
- Acknowledgements
- Index
