{"product_id":"wondrous-truths-the-improbable-triumph-of-modern-science-9780190878658","title":"Wondrous Truths: The Improbable Triumph of Modern Science","description":"A fresh, daring, and genuine alternative to the traditional story of scientific progress \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eExplaining the world around us, and the life within it, is one of the most uniquely human drives, and the most celebrated activity of science. Good explanations are what provide accurate causal accounts of the things we wonder at, but explanation's earthly origins haven't grounded it: we have used\u003cbr\u003eit to account for the grandest and most wondrous mysteries in the natural world. Explanations give us a sense of understanding, but an explanation that feels right doesn't mean it is true. For every true explanation, there is a false one that feels just as good. A good theory's explanations, though, \u003cbr\u003ehave a much easier path to truth. This push for good explanations elevated science from medieval alchemy to electro-chemistry, or a pre-inertial physics to the forces underlying nanoparticles. And though the attempt to explain has existed as long as we have been able to wonder, a science timeline\u003cbr\u003efrom pre-history to the present will reveal a steep curve of theoretical discovery that explodes around 1600, primarily in the West. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRanging over neuroscience, psychology, history, and policy, \u003cem\u003eWondrous Truths\u003c\/em\u003e answers two fundamental questions-Why did science progress in the West? And why so quickly? J.D. Trout's answers are surprising. His central idea is that Western science rose above all others because it hit upon successive\u003cbr\u003etheories that were approximately true through an awkward assortment of accident and luck, geography and personal idiosyncrasy. Of course, intellectual ingenuity partially accounts for this persistent drive forward. But so too does the persistence of the objects of wonder. \u003cem\u003eWondrous Truths\u003c\/em\u003e recovers\u003cbr\u003ethe majesty of science, and provides a startling new look at the grand sweep of its biggest ideas.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e J. D. Trout\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/02\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 260\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780190878658\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJ.D. Trout \u003c\/strong\u003eis Professor of Philosophy and Psychology at Loyola University in Chicago. His previous books include \u003cem\u003eMeasuring the Intentional World\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eEpistemology and the Psychology of Human Judgment \u003c\/em\u003e(with Michael A Bishop), and \u003cem\u003eThe Empathy Gap\u003c\/em\u003e. He has been interviewed in The New York Times, on Latino USA, and Martha Stewart Radio, and has written for the Chicago Tribune and Psychology Today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39929223938163,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":28.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_fed52f0c-cb79-4225-a3cb-b641daa9f4d4.jpg?v=1647611967","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/wondrous-truths-the-improbable-triumph-of-modern-science-9780190878658","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}