CHAPTER 2 An Atlas of Scientists’ Subject Areas in Seeking Scientific Truth

DOI: 10.1201/9781003405399-2

Introduction

In this part of the book, I explore the different disciplines of science, namely the approaches and methodologies of scientists for realising scientific truth in physics, chemistry, the pharmaceutical sciences (closely allied to chemistry), biology, computer science, and mathematics. Firstly, I organize this part into common themes and then, secondly, describe the specific approaches adopted by the scientists in these specialized domains as well as offer comments on the social sciences. There is a good connection between the common base and the philosophers of science analyses of what is being done by scientists, which I described ...

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