Godfrey - Smith Peter - Theory And Reality An Introduction To The Philosophy Of Science Second Edition - Paperback GRATEFUL DEAD PRODUCTION Barcode: 098787161007

Barcode: 098787161007

Description: A defining feature of nineteenth - century Britain was its fascination with statistics

The book compares these two traditions of thought in order to suggest that we have a normative duty to the environment and thus to act in a way that takes the interests of non - human nature into account

Barcode: 9781382005500

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Godfrey - Smith Peter - Theory And Reality An Introduction To The Philosophy Of Science Second Edition - Paperback GRATEFUL DEAD PRODUCTION Barcode: 098787161007Binding: Paperback Description: How does science work? Does it tell us what the world is really like? What makes it different from other ways of understanding the universe? In Theory and Reality Peter Godfrey Smith addresses these questions by taking the reader on a grand tour of more than a hundred years of debate about science. The result is a completely accessible introduction to the main themes of the philosophy of science. Examples and asides