Theories on the Scrap Heap: Scientists and Philosophers on the Falsification, Rejection, and Replacement of Theories

by John Losee

In a recent issue of the Atlantic Monthly, Cullen Murphy wrote that "It is always a little disconcerting when audacious scientific theories come a cropper." In this case, he was speaking of Stephen Hawking's now self-repudiated idea that information swallowed by cosmic black holes might be escaping into "baby universes." John Losee looks at the subject of rejected scientific theories through an analysis of case studies from more than two centuries...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822958732
• ISBN13: 9780822958734
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.4" x 9.0"