Table of Contents:
“…Knowledge and truth are age-old problems -- Competing visions of the scientific method -- Galileo, the Catholic Church, and truth -- Isaac Newton's theory of the universe -- Science vs. philosophy in the 17th century -- Locke, Hume, and the path to skepticism -- Kant restores certainty -- Science, society, and the Age of Reason -- Science comes of age in the 19th century -- Theories need not explain -- Knowledge as a product of the active mind -- Trading reality for experience.…”