LEADER 04668nam 22006015 450 001 9910255354703321 005 20230124201100.0 010 $a3-319-26551-2 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-26551-3 035 $a(CKB)4340000000001640 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-26551-3 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6310721 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5579140 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5579140 035 $a(OCoLC)951673636 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000001640 100 $a20151217d2016 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPhilosophy of Science for Scientists /$fby Lars-Göran Johansson 205 $a1st ed. 2016. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (XV, 257 p. 28 illus. in color.) 225 1 $aSpringer Undergraduate Texts in Philosophy,$x2569-8737 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a3-319-26549-0 327 $aPreface 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. 330 $aThis textbook offers an introduction to the philosophy of science. It helps undergraduate students from the natural, the human and social sciences to gain an understanding of what science is, how it has developed, what its core traits are, how to distinguish between science and pseudo-science and to discover what a scientific attitude is. It argues against the common assumption that there is fundamental difference between natural and human science, with natural science being concerned with testing hypotheses and discovering natural laws, and the aim of human and some social sciences being to understand the meanings of individual and social group actions. Instead examines the similarities between the sciences and shows how the testing of hypotheses and doing interpretation/hermeneutics are similar activities. The book makes clear that lessons from natural scientists are relevant to students and scholars within the social and human sciences, and vice versa. It teaches its readers how to effectively demarcate between science and pseudo-science and sets criteria for true scientific thinking. Divided into three parts, the book first examines the question What is Science? It describes the evolution of science, defines knowledge, and explains the use of and need for hypotheses and hypothesis testing. The second half of part I deals with scientific data and observation, qualitative data and methods, and ends with a discussion of theories on the development of science. Part II offers philosophical reflections on four of the most important concepts in science: causes, explanations, laws and models. Part III presents discussions on philosophy of mind, the relation between mind and body, value-free and value-related science, and reflections on actual trends in science. 410 0$aSpringer Undergraduate Texts in Philosophy,$x2569-8737 606 $aPhilosophy and science 606 $aPhysics 606 $aLogic, Symbolic and mathematical 606 $aPhilosophy of Science$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/E34000 606 $aHistory and Philosophical Foundations of Physics$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/P29000 606 $aMathematical Logic and Foundations$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/M24005 615 0$aPhilosophy and science. 615 0$aPhysics. 615 0$aLogic, Symbolic and mathematical. 615 14$aPhilosophy of Science. 615 24$aHistory and Philosophical Foundations of Physics. 615 24$aMathematical Logic and Foundations. 676 $a501 700 $aJohansson$b Lars-Göran$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0923109 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910255354703321 996 $aPhilosophy of Science for Scientists$92504028 997 $aUNINA