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Science wars. Part 1 [compact disc] : what scientists know and how they know it / taught by Steven L. Goldman.

by Goldman, Steven L., 1941-

Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., c2006.

Science -- History.

Discoveries in science -- History.

Great courses (Compact disc)

6 sound discs (6 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (ii, 73 p. ; 22 cm.)

Lecture 1: Knowledge and truth are age-old problems -- Lecture 2: Competing visions of the scientific method -- Lecture 3: Galileo, the Catholic Church, and truth -- Lecture 4: Isaac Newton's theory of the universe -- Lecture 5: Science vs. philosophy in the 17th century -- Lecture 6: Locke, Hume, and the path to skepticism -- Lecture 7: Kant restores certainty -- Lecture 8: Science, society, and the Age of Reason -- Lecture 9: Science comes of age in the 19th century -- Lecture 10: Theories need not explain -- Lecture 11: Knowledge as a product of the active mind -- Lecture 12: Trading reality for experience.

Presents 1-12 of 24 lectures discussing the nature of scientific knowledge and of the claims to truth that scientists make on behalf of their theories.

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