Roger G. Newton: “What Is Scientific Truth—Is the Moon There When No One Looks?”
Roger G. Newton, *What Is Scientific Truth?—Is the Moon There When No One Looks?*, translated by Wu Jike, Shanghai Science and Technology Education Press, May 2001 I had read this book already in my first year of high school. At the time I found it hard to understand, but reading it again now, I realize that it is in fact a book about the philosophy of science. Its author is a quantum physicist, yet his familiarity with the philosophy of science, including scientific epistemology, history of science, sociology of science, and so on, is quite broad. The author criticizes sociologists of science who hold relativistic social constructivist views, and he…
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