Book ID: CBB000641982

No Easy Answers: Science and the Pursuit of Knowledge (2005)

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Franklin, Allan D. (Author)


University of Pittsburgh Press


Publication Date: 2005
Physical Details: xii + 258 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description Uses historical case studies in atomic and subatomic physics to discuss the philosophy of science.


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Review Farmakis, Lefteris (2006) Review of "No Easy Answers: Science and the Pursuit of Knowledge". Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (p. 307). unapi

Review Staley, Kent W. (2007) Review of "No Easy Answers: Science and the Pursuit of Knowledge". British Journal for the History of Science (p. 455). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Nersessian, Nancy J.
Schmid, Jelscha
Vrishali Subramanian
Nenad Miščević
Harald Wiltsche
Josh Hunt
Journals
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Physics in Perspective
Foundations of Chemistry
Publishers
Wallstein Verlag
Oxford University Press
Kluwer Academic
Harvard University Press
Concepts
Philosophy of science
Experiments and experimentation
Epistemology
Thought experiments
Research methods
Atomic, nuclear, and particle physics
People
Wigner, Eugene Paul
Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von
Quine, Willard Van Orman
Popper, Karl Raimund
Koyré, Alexandre
Kant, Immanuel
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
20th century, late
18th century
Places
United States
Japan
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