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Real Science: What it Is and What it Means
John Ziman
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Description for Real Science: What it Is and What it Means
hardcover. A systematic, carefully reasoned, but non-technical analysis of the nature and significance of scientific knowledge. Num Pages: 412 pages, 20 b/w illus. BIC Classification: PDA; PDZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 235 x 35. Weight in Grams: 766. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
Scientists and 'anti-scientists' alike need a more realistic image of science. The traditional mode of research, academic science, is not just a 'method': it is a distinctive culture, whose members win esteem and employment by making public their findings. Fierce competition for credibility is strictly regulated by established practices such as peer review. Highly specialized international communities of independent experts form spontaneously and generate the type of knowledge we call 'scientific' - systematic, theoretical, empirically-tested, quantitative, and so on. Ziman shows that these familiar 'philosophical' features of scientific knowledge are inseparable from the ordinary cognitive capabilities and peculiar social relationships ... Read more
Scientists and 'anti-scientists' alike need a more realistic image of science. The traditional mode of research, academic science, is not just a 'method': it is a distinctive culture, whose members win esteem and employment by making public their findings. Fierce competition for credibility is strictly regulated by established practices such as peer review. Highly specialized international communities of independent experts form spontaneously and generate the type of knowledge we call 'scientific' - systematic, theoretical, empirically-tested, quantitative, and so on. Ziman shows that these familiar 'philosophical' features of scientific knowledge are inseparable from the ordinary cognitive capabilities and peculiar social relationships ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
412
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521772297
SKU
KSG0032863
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About John Ziman
John Ziman is well known internationally for his many scholarly and popular books on condensed-matter physics and on science, technology and society. He was born in 1925, and was brought up in New Zealand. He took his DPhil at Oxford and lectured at Cambridge before becoming Professor of Theoretical Physics at Bristol in 1964. His research on the electrical properties ... Read more
Reviews for Real Science: What it Is and What it Means
'… an excellent insight into the social and 'political' structure of the scientific world. Real Science makes interesting reading because it shows that scientific knowledge, rather than providing the idealized, clear and concise description of the world around us, is all too much an evolving product of the human mind.' Peter L. Hordijk and Eloise C. Anthony, Nature Cell Biology ... Read more