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200 pages
ISBN: 1594032076
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This is an erudite, entertaining, and unapologetic exposition of the essential logic of science, a no-holds-barred advocacy. Above all, it’s a wonderfully good read.
Mark Burgman, University of Melbourne
This book has been needed for a long time. The modern world is built on the knowledge produced by science, yet until now we have lacked a good account of why scientific knowledge is well-founded. James Franklin dismantles the claims of postmodernists, sociologists, social constructionists and other radical skeptics who have recently colonized the philosophy of science. He provides us with a convincing, comprehensive and enjoyably readable account of why scientific knowledge is rational, objective and dependable.
Keith Windschuttle, Editor, Quadrant Magazine
[H]ere is an apology for science that is intelligent, informed, yet nuanced and engagingly presented. It deserves to be widely read.
D.M. Armstrong, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Sydney University
James Franklin has given us another lucid, fascinating, and accessible book on the philosophy of science, with instructive detours into the global warming debate, evolutionary biology, and the sausage-making aspects of scientific work — peer review and grant-chasing. In addition to the title topic, Professor Franklin also gives coverage of what science does not, perhaps cannot, tell us. What Science Knows is an important book, thoughtfully constructed and gracefully written.
John Derbyshire, author of Prime Obsession
If you are curious about what modern philosophers of science are up to, you will enjoy every chapter of this lively book by Australia’s neo-Thomist philosopher James Franklin. He is especially good in exposing the follies of Karl Popper, Thomas Kuhn, Imre Lakatos, Paul Feyerabend, and the preposterous French postmodernists. Who can disagree with the book’s final sentence? “We cannot believe that what science knows is all there is.”
Martin Gardner, author of The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener, and some 70 other books about philosophy, science, mathematics, and literature
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