Uncertainty: How It Makes Science Advance

ISBN-13: 9780190871666 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 272 str.

Kostas Kampourakis; Kevin McCain

Opis

Anti-evolutionists, climate denialists, and anti-vaxxers, among others, question some of the best-established scientific findings by referring to the uncertainties in these areas of research. Uncertainty: How It Makes Science Advance shows that uncertainty is an inherent feature of science that makes it advance by motivating further research.

Recenzje

Kostas Kampourakis and Kevin McCain's Uncertainty-How it Makes Science Advance has the merit of taking a complex philosophical topic-i.e., how scientific practice and knowledge relate to epistemic and psychological uncertainty- and make it accessible to the general public. It also has the virtue of reminding us philosophers of science that our abstract discussions, when contextualized and approached in the right way, can be extremely relevant for social concerns. What this book offers to the reader is a clear, illustrative guide for understanding that there's knowledge, understanding, and rationality in science even in the absence of certainty-and, to an extent, precisely because of it.

O autorze

Kostas Kampourakis is the author and editor of several books about evolution, genetics, philosophy, and history of science. From 2015 to 2019 he was the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Science & Education. He is currently a researcher at the University of Geneva, where he also teaches at the Section of Biology and the University Institute for Teacher Education (http://kampourakis.com) Kevin McCain is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. His research is primarily focused on epistemology and philosophy of science, particularly where the two intersect. He is a series editor for Routledge Studies in Epistemology and the author of numerous works in epistemology and philosophy of science.