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  title info:
    title: Black boxes
    sub title: how science turns ignorance into knowledge
  name:
    name part: Nathan, Marco J.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (x, 298 pages) : illustrations.
  abstract: "Textbooks and other popular venues commonly present science as a progressive 'brick-by-brick' accumulation of knowledge and facts. Despite its hallowed history and familiar ring, this depiction is nowadays rejected by most specialists. Then why are books and articles, written by these same experts, actively promoting such a distorted characterization? The short answer is that no better alternative is available. There currently are two competing models of the scientific enterprise: reductionism and antireductionism. Neither provides an accurate depiction of the productive interaction between knowledge and ignorance, supplanting the old metaphor of the "wall" of knowledge. This book explores an original conception of the nature and advancement of science. The proposed shift brings attention to a prominent, albeit often neglected, construct-the black box-which underlies a well-oiled technique for incorporating a productive role of ignorance and failure into the acquisition of empirical knowledge. What is a black box? How does it work? How do we construct one? How do we determine what to include and what to leave out? What role do boxes play in contemporary scientific practice? By detailing some fascinating episodes in the history of biology, psychology, and economics, Nathan revisits foundational questions about causation, explanation, emergence, and progress, showing how the insights of both reductionism and antireductionism can be reconciled into a fresh and exciting approach to science"--
  table of contents: Bricks and boxes -- Between Scylla and Charybdis -- Lessons from the history of science -- Placeholders -- Black-boxing 101 -- History of science 'black-boxing style' -- Diet mechanistic philosophy -- Emergence reframed -- The fuel of scientific progress -- Sailing through the strait.
  note: Marco J. Nathan.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Science
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Science
    topic: Methodology
  subject:
    topic: Ignorance (Theory of knowledge)
  subject:
    topic: Sciences
    topic: Méthodologie
  subject:
    topic: Ignorance
  subject:
    topic: Epistemology
  subject:
    topic: PHILOSOPHY
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy & Social Aspects
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE
  subject:
    topic: Ignorance (Theory of knowledge)
  subject:
    topic: Science
    topic: Methodology
  subject:
    topic: Science
    topic: Philosophy
  classification: Q175 .N38 2021
  classification: 501
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    title info:
      title: Black boxes
    name:
      name part: Nathan, Marco J..
    origin info:
      publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]
    identifier: (DLC) 2021001998
    identifier: (OCoLC) 1237860957
  identifier: 9780190095505
  identifier: 0190095504
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  identifier: 9780190095499
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 210313
    record change date: 20260319184126.5
    record identifier: in00005720380
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng