Scientific Nihilism: On the Loss and Recovery of Physical Explanation

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Scientific Nihilism: On the Loss and Recovery of Physical Explanation
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Author Daniel R Athearn
Published 1994
Publisher SUNY Press
Pages 387
ISBN 0791418073

This book shows that the breakoff of narrative causal explanation in physics, although remarkable, is no basis for the negative view of scientific knowledge. It demonstrates that radiation and field phenomena, which include a wide array of enigmatic facts, are amenable to explanation even in their most puzzling details.

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