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Is science getting at the truth? The sceptics - those who spread doubt about science - often employ a simple argument: scientists were 'sure' in the past, and then they ended up being wrong. Through a combination of historical investigation and philosophical-sociological analysis, Identifying Future-Proof Science defends science against this potentially dangerous scepticism. Indeed, we can confidently identify many scientific claims that are future-proof: they will last forever, so long as science continues. How do we identify future-proof claims? This appears to be a new question for science scholars, and not an unimportant one. Peter Vickers argues that the best way to identify future-proof science is to avoid any attempt to analyse the relevant first-order scientific evidence, instead focusing purely on second-order evidence. Specifically, a scientific claim is future-proof when the relevant scientific community is large, international, and diverse, and at least 95% of that community would describe the claim as a 'scientific fact'. In the entire history of science, no claim meeting these criteria has ever been overturned, despite enormous opportunity.

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• Celý názov: Identifying Future-Proof Science
• Autor: Vickers, Peter (Professor of Philosophy and Co-Director of the Centre for Humanities Engaging Science and Society (CHESS), Professor of Philosophy and Co-Director of the Centre for Humanities Engaging
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Väzba: Pevná
• Počet strán: 288
• EAN: 9780192862730
• ISBN: 0192862731
• ID: 38789442
• Nakladateľ: Oxford University Press
• Hmotnosť: 622 g
• Rozmery: 165 × 241 × 24 mm
• Dátum vydania: 30. November 2022

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