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Fraser George MacDonald |
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Flashman on the March |
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Harry Flashman: the unrepentant bully of Tom Brown's schooldays, now with a Victoria Cross, has three main talents - horsemanship, facility with foreign languages and fornication. A reluctant military hero, Flashman plays a key part in most of the defining military campaigns of the 19th century, despite trying his utmost to escape them all.Many have marvelled at General Napier's daring 1868 expedition through the treacherous peaks and bottomless chasms of Abyssinia to rescue a small group of British citizens held captive by the mad tyrant Emperor Theodore. But the vital role of Sir Harry Flashman, V.C., in the success of this campaign has hitherto gone unrecorded.Flashman's undeserved reputation for heroism renders him the British Army's candidate of choice when it comes to skulking behind enemy lines in Ali Baba attire. After all, who but the great amorist could contemplate navigating a land populated by hostile tribes and the loveliest (and most savage) women in Africa, from leather-clad nymphs with a penchant for torture to a voluptuous barbarian queen with a reputation for throwing disobliging guests to her pet lions? |
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UNINA9910255354703321 |
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Johansson Lars-Göran |
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Philosophy of Science for Scientists / / by Lars-Göran Johansson |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2016 |
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[1st ed. 2016.] |
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1 online resource (XV, 257 p. 28 illus. in color.) |
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Springer Undergraduate Texts in Philosophy, , 2569-8737 |
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Philosophy and science |
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Logic, Symbolic and mathematical |
Philosophy of Science |
History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics |
Mathematical Logic and Foundations |
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Preface and overview of the bookPart 1: What is science? -- 1. The Evolution of Science -- 2. Knowledge -- 3. Hypotheses and Hypothesis Testing -- 4. On Scientific Data -- 5. Qualitative Data and Methods -- 6. Theories about the Development of Science -- Part 2. Philosophical reflections on four core concepts in science: causes, explanations, laws and models -- 7. On Causes and Correlations -- 8. Explanations -- 9. Explanation in the Humanities and Social Sciences -- 10. Scientific Laws -- 11. Theories, Models and Reality -- Part 3. Some auxiliaries -- 12. The Mind-Body Problem -- 13. Science and Values -- 14. Some trends in science -- Appendix -- Logical Forms -- Index. |
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This textbook offers an introduction to the philosophy of science. It helps undergraduate students from the natural, the human and social sciences to gain an understanding of what science is, how it has developed, what its core traits are, how to distinguish between science and pseudo-science and to discover what a scientific attitude is. It argues against the common assumption that there is fundamental difference between natural and human science, with natural science being concerned with testing hypotheses and discovering natural laws, |
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and the aim of human and some social sciences being to understand the meanings of individual and social group actions. Instead examines the similarities between the sciences and shows how the testing of hypotheses and doing interpretation/hermeneutics are similar activities. The book makes clear that lessons from natural scientists are relevant to students and scholars within the social and human sciences, and vice versa. It teaches its readers how to effectively demarcate between science and pseudo-science and sets criteria for true scientific thinking. Divided into three parts, the book first examines the question What is Science? It describes the evolution of science, defines knowledge, and explains the use of and need for hypotheses and hypothesis testing. The second half of part I deals with scientific data and observation, qualitative data and methods, and ends with a discussion of theories on the development of science. Part II offers philosophical reflections on four of the most important concepts in science: causes, explanations, laws and models. Part III presents discussions on philosophy of mind, the relation between mind and body, value-free and value-related science, and reflections on actual trends in science. |
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