Secular sermons : essays on science and philosophy / Alan Musgrave.
Pubblicazione:
Dunedin : Otago university press, 2009.
Descrizione fisica:
216 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Contiene:
Indice: Foreword / J.J.C. Smart. Preface. 1. Can I decide what to believe? 2. Wandering stars and falling stones 3. Is science a rational enterprise? 4. On discovery 5. Ideas and experiments in science 6. Why invent alternatives to unrefuted theories? 7. Philosophy of science, history of science and science education 8. Realism and surrealism about science 9. Diagnostic logic 10. Sextus Empiricus, scepticism and psychology 11. Popper's critical realism 12. Einstein's influence on philosophy 13. Russell on mathematics, a bridgehead against the sceptic? 14. Is evolutionary theory scientific? 15. Are theological notions explanatory? References. Index
