Creating scientific controversies uncertainty and bias in science and society
Introduction : scientific authority and the created controversyLessons from the philosophy of science -- Defining science and the empiricist approach -- Challenges for the naïve empiricist -- A revolution in how we think about sciences -- Sciences as historically and socially situated -- Points to r...
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2015
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Introduction : scientific authority and the created controversyLessons from the philosophy of science -- Defining science and the empiricist approach -- Challenges for the naïve empiricist -- A revolution in how we think about sciences -- Sciences as historically and socially situated -- Points to remember : part I -- Biases, arguments and created controversies -- Inherent irrationality: cognitive biases and heuristics -- Thinking more clearly : arguments, reasoning and informal fallacies -- Created controversies and how to detect them -- Points to remember : part II -- Exposing created controversies -- Environmental scare : the case of anthropogenic climate change -- Sciences, religion and an intelligently designed controversy? -- Issues of public health: aids, autism and gmos -- Points to remember : part III -- Concluding remarks. Introduction : scientific authority and the created controversy -- Lessons from the philosophy of science -- Defining science and the empiricist approach -- Challenges for the naïve empiricist -- A revolution in how we think about sciences -- Sciences as historically and socially situated -- Points to remember : part I -- Biases, arguments and created controversies -- Inherent irrationality: cognitive biases and heuristics -- Thinking more clearly : arguments, reasoning and informal fallacies -- Created controversies and how to detect them -- Points to remember : part II -- Exposing created controversies -- Environmental scare : the case of anthropogenic climate change -- Sciences, religion and an intelligently designed controversy? -- Issues of public health: aids, autism and gmos -- Points to remember : part III -- Concluding remarks |
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| Beschreibung: | Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke |
| Beschreibung: | IX, 260 S. graph. Darst. |
| ISBN: | 9781107692367 978-1-107-69236-7 9781107069619 978-1-107-06961-9 |