Getting It Right in Science and Medicine Can Science Progress through Errors? Fallacies and Facts /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Kricheldorf, Hans R. (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Θέματα: Popular works.; History.; Philosophy and science.; Physics.; Chemistry.; Popular Science.; Popular Science in Chemistry and Materials.; Popular Science in Physics.; History of Science.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.; Philosophy of Science.

This book advocates the importance and value of errors for the progress of scientific research! Hans Kricheldorf explains that most of the great scientific achievements are based on an iterative process (an ‘innate self-healing mechanism’): errors are committed, being checked over and over again, th...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Part I Insights and definitions: Introduction
• What is the meaning of science?
• Laws of nature in everyday life
• Antiscience and antireductionism
• Paradigm change and progress
• How much science is there in medicine?
• Part II From fallacies to facts: Prominent mistakes, and how they were revised: Medicine
• Biology
• Chemistry
• Physics and geology
• Concluding remarks.