Knowing Science

by Alexander Bird

In Knowing Science, Alexander Bird presents an epistemology of science that rejects empiricism and gives a central place to the concept of knowledge. Science aims at knowledge and progresses when it adds to the stock of knowledge. That knowledge is social knowing--it is known by the scientific community as a whole. Evidence is that from which knowledge can be obtained by inference. From this, it follows that evidence is knowledge, and is not limited...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019960665X
• ISBN13: 9780199606658
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.5" x 8.9"