Fictions In Science: Philosophical Essays On Modeling And Idealization

Science is popularly understood as being an ideal of impartial algorithmic objectivity that provides a realistic description of the world. This book challenges this image, taking as their starting point that science trades not only in truth, but in fiction.

• | Edited By: Mauricio (Complutense University, Spain) Suarez
• | Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• | Publication Date: Nov 21, 2008
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 282 pages
• | Language: Not Available
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-10: 0415990351
• | ISBN-13: 9780415990356