Paul Feyeraband famously asked, what's so great about science? One answer is that it has been surprisingly successful in getting things right about the natural world, more successful than non-scientific or pre-scientific systems, religion or philosophy. Science has been able to formulate theories that have successfully predicted novel observations. It has produced theories about parts of reality that were not observable or accessible at the time those theories were first advanced, but the claims about those inaccessible areas have since turned out to be true. And science has, on occasion, advanced on more or less a priori grounds theories that subsequently turned out to be highly empirically successful. In this book the philosopher of science, John Wright delves deep into science's methodology to offer an explanation for this remarkable success story.
- ISBN10 1322130655
- ISBN13 9781322130651
- Publish Date 1 January 2014 (first published 27 November 2012)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 11 March 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Taylor and Francis
- Format eBook
- Pages 206
- Language English