This broad collection of accessible essays helps readers develop a fuller appreciation of the nature of science and scientific knowledge in general.The focus throughout is on the relationships in science between fact and theory, about thenature of scientific theory, and about the kinds of claims on truth that science makes. Arranges essays according to three essential aspects of scientific practice: Method, theory, and discovery.For scientists looking to broaden their general knowledge of basic scientific theory.
Science and Its Ways of Knowing invites the reader to think about science as a way of looking at and understanding the natural world. Organized into three parts--On Scientific Method, Developing a Theory, and Contexts of Discovery--this collection of twenty-one essays by leading scientists and science writers engages such issues as the relationship in science between fact and theory, the nature of scientific theory, and the kinds of claims on truth that science makes.