Foresight and Understanding: An Inquiry into the Aims of Science

Foresight and Understanding: An Inquiry into the Aims of Science image
ISBN-10:

0090604415

ISBN-13:

9780090604418

Edition: First Edition
Released: Jan 01, 1961
Format: Hardcover, 116 pages
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Description:

What is the purpose of scientific endeavor? Is it to predict, to classify, to diagnose, to benefit technological progress? Stephen Toulmin maintains that it is more than these: "The central aims of science lie in the field of intellectual creation...other activities are probably called "scientific" from their connection with the explanatory ideas and ideals which are the heart of natural science."

























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