Can I read The Knowledge Machine : How Irrationality Created Modern Science on EtoBox?

The Knowledge Machine : How Irrationality Created Modern Science by Strevens, Michael, author is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Knowledge Machine : How Irrationality Created Modern Science about?

“The Knowledge Machine is the most stunningly illuminating book of the last several decades regarding the all-important scientific enterprise.” —Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of Plato at the Googleplex A paradigm-shifting work, The Knowledge Machine revolutionizes our understanding of the origins and structure of science. • Why is science so powerful? • Why did it take so long—two thousand years after the invention of philosophy and mathematics—for the human race to start using science to learn the secrets of the universe? In a groundbreaking work that blends science, philosophy, and history, leading philosopher of science Michael Strevens answers these challenging questions, showing how science came about only once thinkers stumbled upon the astonishing idea that scientific breakthroughs could be accomplished by breaking the rules of logical argument. Like such classic works as Karl Popper’s The Logic of Scientific Discovery and Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, The Knowledge Machine grapples with the meaning and origins of science, using a plethora of vivid historical examples to demonstrate that scientists willfully ignore religion, theoretical beauty,

Who reads The Knowledge Machine : How Irrationality Created Modern Science?

Author

Strevens, Michael, author

Publisher

New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9781631491382

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Science, Philosophy, Stem

Rating

4.4 / 5 (339 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14