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Index
Cover
Title
Contents
Introduction: The Knowledge Machine
I. The Great Method Debate
1. Unearthing the Scientific Method
2. Human Frailty
3. The Essential Subjectivity of Science
II. How Science Works
4. The Iron Rule of Explanation
5. Baconian Convergence
6. Explanatory Ore
7. The Drive for Objectivity
8. The Supremacy of Observation
III. Why Science Took So Long
9. Science’s Strategic Irrationality
10. The War against Beauty
11. The Advent of Science
IV. Science Now
12. Building the Scientific Mind
13. Science and Humanism
14. Care and Maintenance of the Knowledge Machine
Acknowledgments
Glossary of Novel Terms
Notes
References
List of Illustrations
Index
About the Author
Also by Michael Strevens
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