Philosophy, science, education and culture / by Robert Nola and Gürol Irzik.

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Nola, Robert

Contributor(s):

Irzık, Gürol

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Series: Science & technology education libraryPublication details: Dordrecht : Springer, c2005.Description: xi, 488 pISBN:

9781402037696 (hbk. : acid free paper)
1402037694 (hbk. : acid free paper)
9781402037706
1402037708

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Contents:

Ch. 1. Belief, learning and education -- Ch. 2. Knowledge, education and critical inquiry -- Ch. 3. Plato on knowledge, and a Socratic model of inquiry -- Ch. 4. Some problems for theories of knowledge and their resolution -- Ch. 5. Varieties of constructivism and the inaccessibility of reality argument -- Ch. 6. The aims of science and critical inquiry -- Ch. 7. Naive inductivism as a methodology in science -- Ch. 8. Hypothetico-deductivism as a methodology in science -- Ch. 9. Bayesian methodology in science -- Ch. 10. Scientific realism and modelling reality -- Ch. 11. Sociology versus rationality in science -- Ch. 12. Lyotard, postmodernism and education -- Ch. 13. Multiculturalism and science education -- Ch. 14. Politics of science and science education.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Text/Reserve Book	Library, SPAB G-1	Non Fiction	501 NOL-P (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		006546

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Ch. 1. Belief, learning and education --
Ch. 2. Knowledge, education and critical inquiry --
Ch. 3. Plato on knowledge, and a Socratic model of inquiry --
Ch. 4. Some problems for theories of knowledge and their resolution --
Ch. 5. Varieties of constructivism and the inaccessibility of reality argument --
Ch. 6. The aims of science and critical inquiry --
Ch. 7. Naive inductivism as a methodology in science --
Ch. 8. Hypothetico-deductivism as a methodology in science --
Ch. 9. Bayesian methodology in science --
Ch. 10. Scientific realism and modelling reality --
Ch. 11. Sociology versus rationality in science --
Ch. 12. Lyotard, postmodernism and education --
Ch. 13. Multiculturalism and science education --
Ch. 14. Politics of science and science education.

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