Overview of the structure of a scientific worldview

Zygon

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 113-124

  Carvalho IV, John J ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Comprehensive worldviews; Contingent truth; Critical realism; Evolutionary biology; Hypothetico deductive method; Inductivism; Justification in science; Methods of science; Noncomprehensive worldviews; Philosophy and theology; Presuppositions of science; Science and religion; Scientific worldview; Statistical relevance method; Theological worldview

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746873640     PISSN: 05912385     EISSN: 14679744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9744.2006.00729.x     Document Type: Review

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