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035 _a(OCoLC)1127868508
040 _aMdBmJHUP
_cMdBmJHUP
100 1 _aHimsworth, Harold,
_d1905-1993.
245 1 0 _aScientific Knowledge and Philosophic Thought /
_cHarold Himsworth.
264 1 _aBaltimore, Md :
_bJohns Hopkins University Press,
_c2019
264 3 _aBaltimore, Md. :
_bProject MUSE,
_c2019
264 4 _c©2019
300 _a1 online resource (130 pages).
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aOriginally published as Johns Hopkins Press in 1986.
500 _aThe text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No derivatives 4.0 International License.
500 _aOpen access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program.
505 0 _aMethods of Thought -- Experience and Understanding -- Observations and Hypotheses -- The Particular and the General -- Possibility and Certainty -- Imagination and Credibility -- Inference, Induction, and Intuition -- Properties and Values -- Science and Philosophy
506 0 _aOpen Access
_fUnrestricted online access
_2star
520 _aAre there two kinds of problems - the scientific and the philosophic - each requiring different methods for solution? Or are there, rather, two different ways of approaching a problem, each yielding a different answer according to the method used? Biomedical researcher Sir Harold Himsworth urges scientists not to shy away from using scientific methods to grapple with problems traditionally accepted as belonging to the province of philosophy. The difference between science and philosophy lies not in the problems to which they are directed, Himsworth argues, but rather in the methods they use for solving them. To the scientist, a proposition is something to be investigated; to the philosopher, something to be accepted as a basis for thought. Since the development of the scientific method, substantial progress has been made toward mastering problems in the natural environment. If we are ever to attain a degree of control over problems that derive from human activities, Himsworth claims that we only succeed by approaching them in a comparably objective way.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 7 _aPhilosophie.
_2swd
650 0 7 _aWissenschaft.
_2swd
650 1 7 _aKennistheorie.
_2gtt
650 1 7 _aProbleemoplossing.
_2gtt
650 1 7 _aDenkwijze.
_2gtt
650 1 7 _aWetenschap.
_2gtt
650 7 _aErkenntnistheorie
_2gnd
650 7 _aPhilosophie
_2gnd
650 7 _aWissenschaft
_2gnd
650 7 _aKnowledge, Theory of.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst00988194
650 7 _aProblem solving.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01077890
650 7 _aScience
_xMethodology.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01108313
650 7 _aScience
_xPhilosophy.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01108336
650 7 _aepistemology.
_2aat
650 6 _aSciences
_xMethodologie.
650 6 _aTheorie de la connaissance.
650 6 _aResolution de probleme.
650 2 _aProblem Solving
650 2 _aScience
_xmethods
650 2 _aKnowledge
650 0 _aScience
_xPhilosophy.
650 0 _aScience
_xMethodology.
650 0 _aKnowledge, Theory of.
650 0 _aProblem solving.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
710 2 _aProject Muse.
_edistributor
830 0 _aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/71396/
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