The Comprehensibility of the Universe: A New Conception of Science

By Nicholas Maxwell

Book Overview

The Comprehensibility of the Universe puts forward a radically new conception of science. Nicholas Maxwell argues that the prevailing view of the relation between scientific theory and evidence is untenable; he calls for a new orthodoxy which sees science as making a hierarchy of assumptions about the comprehensibility of the universe. This new conception has significant implications for both philosophy and science, and promises to heal the rift between the two.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199261555
• ISBN13: 9780199261550
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"