Worldviews (Record no. 38819)
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| fixed length control field | 02780 a2200169 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781405195638 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 609 |
| Item number | DEW |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Dewitt, Richard |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Worldviews |
| Remainder of title | an introduction to the history and philosophy of science |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | Ed.2 |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | London |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | John Wiley & Sons |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2010 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | x,376p. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | CONTENTS<br/>List of figures ix<br/>Acknowledgments xi<br/>Introduction 1<br/>Part I: Fundamental Issues<br/>1 Worldviews 5 <br/>2 Truth 7<br/>3Empirical Facts and Philosophical/Conceptual Facts 32<br/>4Confirming and Disconfirming Evidence and Reasoning38<br/>5The Quine-Duhem Thesis and Implications for Scientific Method 46<br/>6Philosophical Interlude: Problems and Puzzles of Induction 58<br/>7Falsifiability 66<br/>8Instrumentalism and Realism 71<br/>Part II: The Transition from the Aristotelian Worldview<br/>to the Newtonian Worldview 79<br/>9 The Structure of the Universe on the Aristotelian Worldview 81<br/>10 The Preface to Ptolemy's Almagest: The Earth as Spherical,Stationary, and at the Center of the Universe 87<br/>11Astronomical Data: The Empirical Facts 99<br/>12Astronomical Data: The Philosophical/Conceptual Facts 106<br/>13The Ptolemaic System 113<br/>14 The Copernican System 123<br/>15The Tychonic System 134<br/>16 Kepler's System 137<br/>17 Galileo and the Evidence from the Telescope 148<br/>18 A Summary of Problems Facing the Aristotelian Worldview 164<br/>19 Philosophical and Conceptual Connections in the Development<br/>of the New Science 170<br/>20 Overview of the New Science and the Newtonian Worldview 175<br/>21 Philosophical Interlude: What is a Scientific Law? 183<br/>22 The Development of the Newtonian Worldview, 1700-1900 192<br/>Part III: Recent Developments in Science and Worldviews 205<br/>23 The Special Theory of Relativity 207<br/>24 The General Theory of Relativity 227<br/>25 Overview of the Empirical Facts, Mathematics, and<br/>Interpretations of Quantum Theory 235<br/>26 Quantum Theory and Locality: EPR, Bell's Theorem,<br/>and the Aspect Experiments 272<br/>27Overview of the Theory of Evolution 287<br/>28Philosophical and Conceptual Implications of Evolution 310<br/>29Worldviews: Concluding Thoughts 341<br/>Chapter Notes and Suggested Reading 349<br/>References 366<br/>Index 371<br/><br/> |
| 890 ## - Country | |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| 891 ## - Topic | |
| Topic | FA |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | Faculty of Architecture | CEPT Library | CEPT Library | 10/02/2014 | 2 | 1950.96 | 4 | 609 DEW | 012090 | 10/11/2016 | 24/10/2016 | 2438.70 | 10/02/2014 | Book | Bill No.111 Dt.10/02/2014 $36.95 |