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Nola, Robert.

Philosophy, science, education and culture / by Robert Nola and Gürol Irzik. - Dordrecht : Springer, c2005. - xi, 488 p. : - Science & technology education library ; .

Ch. 1. Belief, learning and education --
Ch. 2. Knowledge, education and critical inquiry --
Ch. 3. Plato on knowledge, and a Socratic model of inquiry --
Ch. 4. Some problems for theories of knowledge and their resolution --
Ch. 5. Varieties of constructivism and the inaccessibility of reality argument --
Ch. 6. The aims of science and critical inquiry --
Ch. 7. Naive inductivism as a methodology in science --
Ch. 8. Hypothetico-deductivism as a methodology in science --
Ch. 9. Bayesian methodology in science --
Ch. 10. Scientific realism and modelling reality --
Ch. 11. Sociology versus rationality in science --
Ch. 12. Lyotard, postmodernism and education --
Ch. 13. Multiculturalism and science education --
Ch. 14. Politics of science and science education.

ISBN: 9781402037696 (hbk. : acid free paper) 1402037694 (hbk. : acid free paper) 9781402037706 1402037708

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Science--Philosophy.
Education--Philosophy.
Science--Study and teaching.
Knowledge, Theory of.