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The Comprehensibility of the Universe

The Comprehensibility of the Universe

A New Conception of Science

by Nicholas Maxwell
Hardback
Publication Date: 15/10/1998

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The Comprehensibility of the Universe puts forward a radically new conception of science. At present scientific enquiry is shaped by the orthodox view that in accepting or rejecting theories scientists are impartial with respect to evidence and make no permanent assumptions about the world independently of the evidence. Nicholas Maxwell argues that this view is untenable, and that we need a new orthodoxy, which sees science as making a hierarchy of
increasingly attenuated metaphysical assumptions about the comprehensibility and knowability of the universe. This new conception has significant implications, as Maxwell explains. One is that
it is part of current scientific knowledge that the universe is comprehensible, even physically comprehensible. A second is that metaphysics and philosophy are central to scientific knowledge. A third is that science possesses a rational, though fallible, method of discovery. A fourth is that we need a new understanding of scientific method and rationality. Maxwell points the way towards the solution, within his new conception, of long-standing philosophical problems about science, concerning
simplicity, induction, and progress. His goal is the reform not just of the philosophy of science but of science itself, and the healing of the rift between the two.
ISBN:
9780198237761
9780198237761
Category:
Philosophy of science
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
15-10-1998
Language:
English
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
332
Dimensions (mm):
244x166x23mm
Weight:
0.65kg

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