What Is Science? - An Interdisciplinary View

Informationen zum Autor Klaus Jaffe coordinates doctoral programs of interdisciplinary science at various universities. He holds degrees in chemistry, biochemistry, and behavior, and has worked all over the world studying the evolution of animal and human societies using methods borrowed from chemistry, biology, physics, sociology, anthropology, and computer sciences. He has published nearly two hundred scientific articles and several books. Klappentext This book seeks to define science conceptually. The emergence of science made possible the industrial revolution and the development of a multitude of scientific disciplines, all very successful in advancing understanding of the world and of ourselves. What makes science more efficient in advancing our knowledge than any other heuristics? Zusammenfassung This book seeks to define science conceptually. The emergence of science made possible the industrial revolution and the development of a multitude of scientific disciplines! all very successful in advancing understanding of the world and of ourselves. What makes science more efficient in advancing our knowledge than any other heuristics? Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Warning Chapter 2 Preface: In Search of a Multidimensional Heuristics Chapter 3 Acknowledgements Chapter 4 Introduction Chapter 5 1. The Ascent of Homo sapiens scientiarum Chapter 6 2. The Ascent of Empirical Science Chapter 7 3. Modern Science Chapter 8 4. What Science is Not Chapter 9 5. Science and Society Chapter 10 6. The Dangers Ahead Chapter 11 7. Natural Selection and The Scientific Method

Product details

• Authors: Klaus Jaffe, Jaffe Klaus
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2009
• EAN: 9780761846734
• ISBN: 978-0-7618-4673-4
• No. of pages: 104
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 235 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Labour, economic and industrial sociology; Science: general issues, SCIENCE / General, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, SCIENCE / Study & Teaching, SCIENCE / System Theory, Impact of science & technology on society, Cybernetics & systems theory