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The Scientific Attitude

Release on 2020-04-07 | by Lee McIntyre

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Author: Lee McIntyre
Publisher: Mit Press
ISBN: 9780262538930
Category: Science
Page: 296
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The Scientific Attitude

Attacks on science have become commonplace. Claims that climate change isn't settled science, that evolution is "only a theory," and that scientists are conspiring to keep the truth about vaccines from the public are staples of some politicians' rhetorical repertoire. In this book, Lee McIntyre argues that what distinguishes science from its rivals is what he calls "the scientific attitude"-caring about evidence and being willing to change theories on the basis of new evidence. The history of science is littered with theories that were scientific but turned out to be wrong; the scientific attitude reveals why even a failed theory can help us to understand what is special about science. He describes the transformation of medicine from a practice based largely on hunches into a science based on evidence; considers scientific fraud; and examines the positions of ideology-driven denialists, pseudoscientists, and "skeptics" who reject scientific findings. The scientific attitude, McIntyre explains, offers a uniquely powerful tool in the defense of science. Book jacket.

Language: en
Pages: 296

The Scientific Attitude

Authors: Lee McIntyre

Categories: Science

Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-04-07 - Publisher: Mit Press

Language: en
Pages: 180

The Scientific Attitude

Authors: Frederick Grinnell

Categories: Science

Type: BOOK - Published: 1992-03-06 - Publisher: Guilford Press

THE SCIENTIFIC ATTITUDE presents a systematic account of the cognitive and social features of science. Written by an experimental biologist actively engaged in research, the work is unique in its attempt to understand science in terms of day-to-day practice. The book goes beyond the traditional description of science that focuses

Language: en
Pages: 175

The Scientific Attitude

Authors: Conrad Hal Waddington

Categories: Art and science

Type: BOOK - Published: 1948 - Publisher:

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Language: en
Pages: 180

C.G. Jung and the Scientific Attitude

Authors: Joseph S. Roucek

Categories: Biography & Autobiography

Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-05-20 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

C.G. Jung and the Scientific Attitude is a survey and assessment of the contributions of the great Swiss psychiatrist. Since its viewpoint is that of an historian of psychology rather than that of a practitioner, stress is placed on the conceptual consistency of Jung’s approach, and the fundamental philosophical differences

Language: en
Pages: 204

The Scientific Attitude

Authors: C. H. Waddington

Categories: History

Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-07-28 - Publisher: Routledge

First published in 1941 (this edition in 1968), this book explores the relationship between science, culture, and society- focusing on human beings, and human communities. Here, C. H. Waddington uses the concept of science to mean more than factual information about genes and haemoglobin and his subject is the effect