Science wars : what scientists know and how they know it

Presents lectures (each 30 minutes in length) by Steven L. Goldman discussing various aspects of science. (THIS IS A SET. Books and DVDs must be checkout together)

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Main Author: Goldman, Steven L., 1941-
Format: Video
Language:English
Published: Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., c2006.
Series:Great courses ; no. 1235.
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300 |a 4 videodiscs (720 min.) :  |b sd., col. ;  |c 4 3/4 in. +  |e 2 course guidebooks (73, 72 ; 22 cm.) 
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500 |a Includes lecture notes, outlines, timeline, glossary and bibliographical references. 
511 0 |a Taught by: Steven L. Goldman, Lehigh University. 
505 0 |a pt. 1. 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. 
505 0 |a pt. 2. Lecture 13. Scientific truth in the early 20th century -- lecture 14. Two new theories of scientific knowledge -- lecture 15. Einstein and Bohr redefine reality -- lecture 16. Truth, ideology, and thought collectives -- lecture 17. Kuhn's revolutionary image of science -- lecture 18. Challenging mainstream science from within -- Lecture 19. Objectivity under attack -- lecture 20. Scientific knowledge as a social construct -- lecture 21. New definitions of objectivity -- lecture 22. Science wars of the late 20th century -- lecture 23. Intelligent design and the scope of science -- lecture 24. Truth, history, and citizenship. 
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