{
"item_title" : "Fictions in Science",
"item_author" : [" Mauricio Suárez "],
"item_description" : "Science is popularly understood as being an ideal of impartial algorithmic objectivity that provides a realistic description of the world. The essays collected in this book challenge this popular image right at its heart, taking as their starting point that science trades not only in truth, but in fiction. ",
"item_img_path" : "https://covers3.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/0/41/588/792/0415887925_b.jpg",
"price_data" : {
"retail_price" : "70.99", "online_price" : "70.99", "our_price" : "70.99", "club_price" : "70.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : ""
}
}
Fictions in Science : Philosophical Essays on Modeling and Idealization
Other Available Formats
Overview
Science is popularly understood as being an ideal of impartial algorithmic objectivity that provides a realistic description of the world. The essays collected in this book challenge this popular image right at its heart, taking as their starting point that science trades not only in truth, but in fiction.
This item is Non-Returnable
Customers Also Bought
Details
- ISBN-13: 9780415887922
- ISBN-10: 0415887925
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publish Date: November 2010
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.61 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.87 pounds
- Page Count: 290
Related Categories
