01370nam a2200229 a 4500 TVCDKTCT13764 Thư viện trường Cao đẳng Kỹ thuật Cao Thắng 20120426000000 120426 Thư viện Trường CĐ Kỹ Thuật Cao Thắng RG_1 #1 eb0 i1 9780072850208 vie 501 / C400P-k Parsons Keith Copernican Questions: A Concise Invitation to the Philosophy of Science / Parsons Keith Americas : MC Graw Hill , 2006 176cmtr. ; 27cm This provocative, focused, and succinct new text addresses two issues integral to the study of the philosophy of science: the rationality of science and the realism question. Students are invited to think deeply about salient issues as they explore collections of cases and examples, beginning by considering the founding document of modern science, Copernicus’s On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, and including discussions of other key readings such as Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Author Keith Parsons challenges students’ thinking, offering his own views while providing a solid foundation for debate. Science--History--Philosophy Science--Methodology Constructive realism