Description: What Is Science? : A Guide for Those Who Love It, Hate It, or Fear It, Hardcover by Carlson, Elof Axel, ISBN 981122871X, ISBN-13 9789811228711, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US What is Science? A Guide for Those Who Love It, Hate It, or Fear It, provides the reader with ways science has been done through discovery, exploration, experimentation and other reason-based approaches. It discusses the basic and applied sciences, the reasons why some people hate science, especially its rejection of the supernatural, and others who fear it for human applications leading to environmental degradation, climate change, nuclear war, and other outcomes of sciences applied to author uses anecdotes from interviews and associations with many scientists he has encountered in his career to illustrate these features of science and their personalities and habits of thinking or work. He also explores the culture wars of science and the humanities, values involved in doing science and applying science, the need for preventing unexpected outcomes of applied science, and the ways our world view changes through the insights of science. This book will provide teachers lots of material for discussion about science and its significance in our lives. It will also be helpful for those starting out their interest in science to know the worst and best features of science as they develop their careers.
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Book Title: What Is Science? : A Guide for Those Who Love It, Hate It, or Fea
Author: Carlson, Elof Axel
Language: english
