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Critical Appraisal of Physical Science as a Human Enterprise [electronic resource] :Dynamics of Scientific Progress / by Mansoor Niaz.

by Niaz, Mansoor [author.]; SpringerLink (Online service).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Science & Technology Education Library: 36Publisher: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.Description: online resource.ISBN: 9781402096266.Subject(s): Education | Science -- History | Science -- Philosophy | Science -- Study and teaching | Education | Science Education | Philosophy of Science | History of ScienceDDC classification: 507.1 Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
Quantitative Imperative Versus the Imperative of Presuppositions -- Understanding Scientific Progress: From Duhem to Lakatos -- Kinetic Theory: Maxwell's Presuppositions -- Periodic Table of the Chemical Elements: From Mendeleev to Moseley -- Foundations of Modern Atomic Theory: Thomson, Rutherford, and Bohr -- Determination of the Elementary Electrical Charge: Millikan and Ehrenhaft -- Paradox of the Photoelectric Effect: Einstein and Millikan -- Bending of Light in the 1919 Eclipse Experiments: Einstein and Eddington -- Lewis's Covalent Bond: From Transfer of Electrons to Sharing of Electrons -- Quantum Mechanics: From Bohr to Bohm -- Wave–Particle Duality: De Broglie, Einstein, and Schrödinger -- Searching for Quarks: Perl's Philosophy of Speculative Experiments -- Conclusion: Inductive Method as a Chimera.
In: Springer eBooksSummary: The objective of this book is to reconstruct historical episodes and experiments that have been important in scientific progress, and to explore the role played by controversies and rivalries among scientists. Although progress in science has been replete with controversies, scientists themselves either ignore or simply downplay their role. Such presentations lack the appreciation of the dynamics of ‘science-in-the-making’. This book provides methodological guidelines - based on a historical perspective of philosophy of science- that facilitate an understanding of historical episodes beyond that of inductive generalizations. These guidelines suggest that progress in science is not merely based on the accumulation of experimental data, but rather dependent on the creative imagination of the scientific community. This work shows that interpretation of experimental data is difficult and inevitably leads to alternative models/theories thus facilitating the understanding of science as a human enterprise.
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Quantitative Imperative Versus the Imperative of Presuppositions -- Understanding Scientific Progress: From Duhem to Lakatos -- Kinetic Theory: Maxwell's Presuppositions -- Periodic Table of the Chemical Elements: From Mendeleev to Moseley -- Foundations of Modern Atomic Theory: Thomson, Rutherford, and Bohr -- Determination of the Elementary Electrical Charge: Millikan and Ehrenhaft -- Paradox of the Photoelectric Effect: Einstein and Millikan -- Bending of Light in the 1919 Eclipse Experiments: Einstein and Eddington -- Lewis's Covalent Bond: From Transfer of Electrons to Sharing of Electrons -- Quantum Mechanics: From Bohr to Bohm -- Wave–Particle Duality: De Broglie, Einstein, and Schrödinger -- Searching for Quarks: Perl's Philosophy of Speculative Experiments -- Conclusion: Inductive Method as a Chimera.

The objective of this book is to reconstruct historical episodes and experiments that have been important in scientific progress, and to explore the role played by controversies and rivalries among scientists. Although progress in science has been replete with controversies, scientists themselves either ignore or simply downplay their role. Such presentations lack the appreciation of the dynamics of ‘science-in-the-making’. This book provides methodological guidelines - based on a historical perspective of philosophy of science- that facilitate an understanding of historical episodes beyond that of inductive generalizations. These guidelines suggest that progress in science is not merely based on the accumulation of experimental data, but rather dependent on the creative imagination of the scientific community. This work shows that interpretation of experimental data is difficult and inevitably leads to alternative models/theories thus facilitating the understanding of science as a human enterprise.

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