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Item Details
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NO EASY ANSWERS
SCIENCE AND THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE |
| By: |
Allan Franklin |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£42.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
082294250X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780822942504 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
9 February, 2005 |
| Pages: |
272 |
| Description: |
Science is too important in our lives for the public not to have an accurate and reasonable view of how it works. Allan Franklin offers an accurate picture of science to both a general reader and to scholars in the humanities and social sciences, who may not have any background in physics. |
| Synopsis: |
Science is too important in our lives for the public not to have an accurate and reasonable view of how it works. As George Levine has said of his own book, One Culture: "It takes seriously the view that science is one of the great achievements of the human mind, that it matters powerfully to us, for better or worse, in the way we live, the way we think, and the way we imagine. There is no literature more important." In No Easy Answers, Allan Franklin offers an accurate picture of science to both a general reader and to scholars in the humanities and social sciences, who may not have any background in physics. Through the examination of nontechnical case studies, he illustrates the various roles that experiment plays in science. He uses both examples of unquestioned success, such as the discoveries of the electron and of three types of neutrino, and studies that were dead ends, wrong turns, or just plain mistakes, such as the "fifth force," a proposed modification of Newton's law of gravity.Franklin concludes that science is a reasonable enterprise that provides us with knowledge of the natural world based on valid experimental evidence and reasoned and critical discussion, and he makes clear that it behooves all of us to understand how it works. |
| Illustrations: |
Illustrations, port. |
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US |
| Imprint: |
University of Pittsburgh Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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