Fictions in Science: Philosophical Essays on Modeling and Idealization (Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science)

by Mauricio Suárez (Editor)

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  Paperback
  2010

  $55.45

• New

  Hardcover
  2008

  $177.99

  Science is popularly understood as being an ideal of impartial algorithmic objectivity that provides a realistic description of the world. This book challenges this image, taking as their starting point that science trades not only in truth, but in fiction.