What is Science?: An Interdisciplinary Perspective

by Klaus Jaffe

Overview

In What is Science?, Jaffe seeks to define science conceptually. Understanding our environment and ourselves is and has been the most important intellectual activity of mankind. It was only after the emergence of the empirical science (i.e. experiment philosophy) that humanity achieved accelerated social, economic, and technological progress. The emergence of science made possible the industrial revolution and the development of a multitude of scientific disciplines, all very successful in advancing our understanding of the world and of ourselves. What is the key that makes science more efficient in advancing our knowledge than any other heuristics?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761846734
Publisher:	University Press of America
Publication date:	11/23/2009
Pages:	120
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Klaus Jaffe coordinates doctoral programs of interdisciplinary science at various universities. He holds degrees in chemistry, biochemistry, and behavior, and has worked all over the world studying the evolution of animal and human societies using methods borrowed from chemistry, biology, physics, sociology, anthropology, and computer sciences. He has published nearly two hundred scientific articles and several books.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Warning
Chapter 2 Preface: In Search of a Multidimensional Heuristics
Chapter 3 Acknowledgements
Chapter 4 Introduction
Chapter 5 1. The Ascent of Homo sapiens scientiarum
Chapter 6 2. The Ascent of Empirical Science
Chapter 7 3. Modern Science
Chapter 8 4. What Science is Not
Chapter 9 5. Science and Society
Chapter 10 6. The Dangers Ahead
Chapter 11 7. Natural Selection and The Scientific Method