Philosophy, science, education and culture /
by Robert Nola and Gürol Irzik.
- Dordrecht : Springer, c2005.
- xi, 488 p. :
- Science & technology education library ; .
Ch. 1. Belief, learning and education -- Ch. 2. Knowledge, education and critical inquiry -- Ch. 3. Plato on knowledge, and a Socratic model of inquiry -- Ch. 4. Some problems for theories of knowledge and their resolution -- Ch. 5. Varieties of constructivism and the inaccessibility of reality argument -- Ch. 6. The aims of science and critical inquiry -- Ch. 7. Naive inductivism as a methodology in science -- Ch. 8. Hypothetico-deductivism as a methodology in science -- Ch. 9. Bayesian methodology in science -- Ch. 10. Scientific realism and modelling reality -- Ch. 11. Sociology versus rationality in science -- Ch. 12. Lyotard, postmodernism and education -- Ch. 13. Multiculturalism and science education -- Ch. 14. Politics of science and science education.