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EDITORIAL INFORMATION

It's not a scientific truth that has come into question lately but the truth-the very notion of scientific truth. Bringing a resonable voice to the culture wars that have sprung up around this notion, this book offers a clear and constructive response to those who contend, in parodies, polemics, and op-ed pieces, that there really is not such thing as verifiable objective truth-without which there could be no such thing as scientific authority,

(Extracted from the dust jacket).

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Contents.

-Introduction.

-1. Conventions.

-2. Science as a Social Construct?

-3. The Aim of Science Is Understanding.

-4. Explanatory Devices.

-5. The Role of Facts.

-6. The Birth and Death of Theories.

-7. The Power of Mathematics.

-8. Causality, Determinism, and Probability.

-9. Reality on Two Scales.

-10. Reality at the Submicroscopic Level.

-11. Truth and Objectivity.

-Notes.

-Further Reading.

-Bibliography.

-Index

OUR REVIEW

The Truth of Science faces some of the questions we all have sometimes asked ourselves about Science. We are now in the era of scientific discovery, an unstoppable discovery that changes our environment and our understanding of nature day after day. However, the scientific theories come and go, some remain longer than others, some are completely replaced and yet others are improved by the ones succeeding them. Up to which point, then, can we speak about the truth of Science?

This book by Roger G. Newton is an attempt to describe the structure of the physic science and how it understands the reality it reveals. It is not aimed at readers with a scientific background, but rather at the people wishing to see beyond what some sociologists intend to explain us with respect to science and its results.