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Making prehistory :historical science and the scientific realism debate /

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
杜威分類號:	501
書名/作者:	Making prehistory : : historical science and the scientific realism debate // Derek Turner.
作者:	Turner, Derek D.
面頁冊數:	1 online resource (xiv, 223 pages) : : digital, PDF file(s).
附註:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
標題:	Science - Philosophy.
標題:	Paleobiology - Philosophy.
標題:	Historical geology - Philosophy.
ISBN:	9780511487385 (ebook)
內容註:	Asymmetries -- The colors of the dinosaurs -- Manipulation matters -- Paleontology's chimeras -- Novel predictions in historical science -- Making prehistory: could the past be socially constructed? -- The natural historical attitude -- Snowball Earth in the balance.
摘要、提要註:	Scientists often make surprising claims about things that no one can observe. In physics, chemistry, and molecular biology, scientists can at least experiment on those unobservable entities, but what about researchers in fields such as paleobiology and geology who study prehistory, where no such experimentation is possible? Do scientists discover facts about the distant past or do they, in some sense, make prehistory? In this book Derek Turner argues that this problem has surprising and important consequences for the scientific realism debate. His discussion covers some of the main positions in philosophy of science - realism, social constructivism, empiricism, and the natural ontological attitude - and shows how they relate to issues in paleobiology and geology. His original and thought-provoking book will be of wide interest to philosophers and scientists alike.
電子資源:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511487385

Making prehistory :historical science and the scientific realism debate /
Turner, Derek D.1974-

Making prehistory :historical science and the scientific realism debate /Derek Turner. - 1 online resource (xiv, 223 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge studies in philosophy and biology. - Cambridge studies in philosophy and biology..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Asymmetries -- The colors of the dinosaurs -- Manipulation matters -- Paleontology's chimeras -- Novel predictions in historical science -- Making prehistory: could the past be socially constructed? -- The natural historical attitude -- Snowball Earth in the balance.

Scientists often make surprising claims about things that no one can observe. In physics, chemistry, and molecular biology, scientists can at least experiment on those unobservable entities, but what about researchers in fields such as paleobiology and geology who study prehistory, where no such experimentation is possible? Do scientists discover facts about the distant past or do they, in some sense, make prehistory? In this book Derek Turner argues that this problem has surprising and important consequences for the scientific realism debate. His discussion covers some of the main positions in philosophy of science - realism, social constructivism, empiricism, and the natural ontological attitude - and shows how they relate to issues in paleobiology and geology. His original and thought-provoking book will be of wide interest to philosophers and scientists alike.

ISBN: 9780511487385 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

370617
Science
--Philosophy.

LC Class. No.: Q175.32.R42 / T87 2007

Dewey Class. No.: 501

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