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The knowledge machine: how irrationality created modern science
The knowledge machine: how irrationality created modern science
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Strevens, Michael
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Introduction: the knowledge machine
I. THE GREAT METHOD DEBATE
Unearthing the Scientific Method
Human Frailty
The Essential Subjectivity of Science
II. HOW SCIENCE WORKS
The Iron Rule of Explanation
Baconian Convergence
Explanatory Ore
The Drive for Objectivity
The Supremacy of Observation
III. WHY SCIENCE TOOK SO LONG
Science's Strategic Irrationality
The War against Beauty
The Advent of Science
I V. SCIENCE NOW
Building the Scientific Mind
Science and Humanism
Care and Maintenance of the Knowledge Machine.
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History
Irrationality (Philosophy)
Knowledge, Theory of
Methodology
Philosophy
Science
Science & Technology
Science -- History
Science -- Methodology
Science -- Philosophy
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Elfer, Julian
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Strevens, Michael
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9781631491375
9781696601993
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