Scientific Knowledge and Philosophic Thought / Harold Himsworth.

• Author: Himsworth, Harold, 1905-
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 online resource (viii, 113 pages))
• Notes: Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program.; The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No derivatives 4.0 International License; Originally published as Johns Hopkins Press in 1986

Are there two kinds of problems - the scientific and the philosophic - each requiring different methods for solution? Or are there, rather, two different ways of approaching a problem, each yielding a different answer according to the method used? Biomedical researcher Sir Harold Himsworth urges sci...