Making Prehistory

Name: Making Prehistory
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521875202
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Historical Science and the Scientific Realism Debate

Autor: Derek Turner

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Scientists often make surprising claims about things that no one can observe. In physics, chemistry,...

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Derek Turner

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Publicat

2007

Pagini

238

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9780521875202

ISBN

052187520X

Enbook ID

02048495

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Cambridge University Press

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Dimensiuni

151 x 236 x 19

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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 2007 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.

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