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The realities of reality : Part II, Making Sense of Why Modern Science Advances (Volume 1)

Fritz Dufour, MBA, DESS

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Date: 2018, Volume 1

Book Id: WPLBN0100003185

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Subjects: Non Fiction, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy

Collections: Education, Authors Community, Science

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This Volume 1 of Part II considers the factors that make science progress. It lays out the differences between normal science and pseudoscience by showing the importance of the scientific method in the advancement of science. It introduces the concept of Truth in science by raising the point that even though truth is based on the scientific method, can science be true? Can it depict reality? The author focuses on modern science, which, he thinks, was born thanks to the Scientific Revolution which started with Galileo Galilei and led to the Industrial Revolution. The impacts of the latter is analyzed in light modernism, modernization, and modernity, all three linked to scientific progress. The book also talks about the Newtonian scientific leap – by analyzing particularly the then social and political fabrics of England – and Albert Einstein by showing how he changed history. According to the author, our very physical world can help us understand scientific progress. So, he explains, among other things, the structure of atoms and molecules, the role of physics in the understanding of our universe, Quantum Mechanics, and the importanc...

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Science is often distinguished from other domains of human culture by its progressive nature: in contrast to art, religion, philosophy, morality, and politics, there exist clear standards or normative criteria for identifying improvements and advances in science. However, the traditional cumulative view of scientific knowledge was effectively challenged by many philosophers of science in the 1960s and the 1970s, and thereby the notion of progress was also questioned in the field of science. Debates on the normative concept of progress are at the same time concerned with axiological questions about the aims and goals of science. The task of philosophical analysis is to consider alternative answers to the question: What is meant by progress in science? This conceptual question can then be complemented by the methodological question: How can we recognize progressive developments in science? Relative to a definition of progress and an account of its best indicators, one may then study the factual question: To what extent, and in which respects, is science progressive? What is driving the dynamism of science? Why are science and man inse...

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Acknowledgements………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………3 Introduction…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………4 CHAPTER I: What Is Science?...........................................................................................................................................................................................13 1. Types of Science………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..17 A. Normal Science and Scientific Progress……………………………………………………………...……….........................17 B. Pseudoscience and Scientific Progress………………………………………………………………………………………….20 2. The Role of Scientific Method in Scientific Progress…………………………………………………………………..........................24 CHAPTER II: Science and the Quest for Truth……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….28 Values in Science…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..37 CHAPTER III: The Scientific Revolution………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..40 CHAPTER IV: The Industrial Revolution……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….52 1. Impacts of the Industrial Revolution on the World..………………………………………………………...