The Resource The knowledge machine : how irrationality created modern science, Michael Strevens
The knowledge machine : how irrationality created modern science, Michael Strevens
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- Summary
- "A paradigm-shifting work that revolutionizes our understanding of the origins and structure of science. Captivatingly written, interwoven with tantalizing illustrations and historical vignettes ranging from Newton's alchemy to quantum mechanics to the storm surge of Hurricane Sandy, Michael Strevens's wholly original investigation of science asks two fundamental questions: Why is science so powerful? And why did it take so long, two thousand years after the invention of philosophy and mathematics, for the human race to start using science to learn the secrets of nature? The Knowledge Machine's radical answer is that science calls on its practitioners to do something irrational: by willfully ignoring religion, theoretical beauty, and, especially, philosophy-essentially stripping away all previous knowledge-scientists embrace an unnaturally narrow method of inquiry, channeling unprecedented energy into observation and experimentation. Like Yuval Harari's Sapiens or Thomas Kuhn's 1962 classic, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, The Knowledge Machine overturns much of what we thought we knew about the origins of the modern world"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- x, 350 pages
- Contents
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- Introduction: the knowledge machine
- The great method debate. Unearthing the scientific method
- Human frailty
- The essential subjectivity of science
- How science works. The iron rule of explanation
- Baconian convergence
- Explanatory ore
- The drive for objectivity
- The supremacy of observation
- Why science took so long. Science's strategic irrationality
- The war against beauty
- The advent of science
- Science now. Building the scientific mind
- Science and humanism
- Care and maintenance of the knowledge machine
- Isbn
- 9781631491375
- Label
- The knowledge machine : how irrationality created modern science
- Title
- The knowledge machine
- Title remainder
- how irrationality created modern science
- Statement of responsibility
- Michael Strevens
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "A paradigm-shifting work that revolutionizes our understanding of the origins and structure of science. Captivatingly written, interwoven with tantalizing illustrations and historical vignettes ranging from Newton's alchemy to quantum mechanics to the storm surge of Hurricane Sandy, Michael Strevens's wholly original investigation of science asks two fundamental questions: Why is science so powerful? And why did it take so long, two thousand years after the invention of philosophy and mathematics, for the human race to start using science to learn the secrets of nature? The Knowledge Machine's radical answer is that science calls on its practitioners to do something irrational: by willfully ignoring religion, theoretical beauty, and, especially, philosophy-essentially stripping away all previous knowledge-scientists embrace an unnaturally narrow method of inquiry, channeling unprecedented energy into observation and experimentation. Like Yuval Harari's Sapiens or Thomas Kuhn's 1962 classic, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, The Knowledge Machine overturns much of what we thought we knew about the origins of the modern world"--
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- Cataloging source
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- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Strevens, Michael
- Dewey number
- 500
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Science
- Science
- Science
- Knowledge, Theory of
- Practical reason
- Irrationality (Philosophy)
- Knowledge, Theory of
- Science
- Science
- Science
- Label
- The knowledge machine : how irrationality created modern science, Michael Strevens
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [321]-329) and index
- Contents
- Introduction: the knowledge machine -- The great method debate. Unearthing the scientific method -- Human frailty -- The essential subjectivity of science -- How science works. The iron rule of explanation -- Baconian convergence -- Explanatory ore -- The drive for objectivity -- The supremacy of observation -- Why science took so long. Science's strategic irrationality -- The war against beauty -- The advent of science -- Science now. Building the scientific mind -- Science and humanism -- Care and maintenance of the knowledge machine
- Control code
- on1137812867
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- x, 350 pages
- Isbn
- 9781631491375
- Lccn
- 2020018496
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1137812867
- Label
- The knowledge machine : how irrationality created modern science, Michael Strevens
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [321]-329) and index
- Contents
- Introduction: the knowledge machine -- The great method debate. Unearthing the scientific method -- Human frailty -- The essential subjectivity of science -- How science works. The iron rule of explanation -- Baconian convergence -- Explanatory ore -- The drive for objectivity -- The supremacy of observation -- Why science took so long. Science's strategic irrationality -- The war against beauty -- The advent of science -- Science now. Building the scientific mind -- Science and humanism -- Care and maintenance of the knowledge machine
- Control code
- on1137812867
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- x, 350 pages
- Isbn
- 9781631491375
- Lccn
- 2020018496
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1137812867
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