Science as a Questioning Process is a general, philosophy of science book aimed at a wide audience interested in science, philosophy, and social science. The book views science as a questioning process. From this novel perspective, the author then evaluates theories in terms of a trade-off between empirical questions resolved and theoretical questions left unresolved. He discusses questions of perennial intellectual and public concern about what science tells us and how reliable it is.
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A thought-provoking book.
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Nigel Sanitt's book is a nice momento to stop a while and consider the connections and interplay of various scientific disciplines as well as their influencing a man and thinking about where we are and where to go. It should therefore be recommended to everybody who feels not to be just a 'second-hand journeyman scientist.'
-Acta Physica Slovaca
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Nigel Sanitt's book is a nice momento to stop a while and consider the connections and interplay of various scientific disciplines as well as their influencing a man and thinking about where we are and where to go. It should therefore be recommended to everybody who feels not to be just a 'second-hand journeyman scientist.'
-Acta Physica Slovaca
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An essay of questions, answers, truth and progress,
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This is a small book about philosophy of science and graph theory. It is a book about the primacy of questions, unambiguos experimental questions: "Why is the microwave background so uniform ?" or "Why do species have a common morphology ?". Sanitt does not believe in answers, he abandons truth as a criterion for science, and refuses to accept progress in science. He formalizes scientific theories with his group theoretic models, and tries to check their internal consistency and capacity to answer questions (their ability to diminish the number of questions). Sanitt discusses normal science and scientific revolutions without kuhnian terminology, but clearly his "black box science" is "normal science" and opening the black box equals a revolution; i.e. reconsidering the foundations in order to solve a new problem. The questions remain, but answers change over time. Sanitt is clear to distinguish between mathematics from science, deductive reasoning from open endedness of science. Towards the end of his essay, he forays into literature, but I think it would have been more interesting to test if anthropology, psychology, etc. qualify as sciences proper in graph theoretic models.
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- The Logic of Life by François Jacob on 4 pages
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn on page 55, page 62, and page 63
- The World as Will and Idea (Everyman's Library) by Arthur Schopenhauer on page 29, page 125, and page 130
- A History of Philosophy, Vol. 2: Medieval Philosophy - From Augustine to Duns Scotus by Frederick Copleston on page 11, page 29, and page 79
- The Aim and Structure of Physical Theory (Princeton Science Library) by Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem on page 21, page 28, and page 29
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