Speculation —— Within and About Science

----- 推测：科学内部和有关科学

ISBN: 9780190615055 出版年：2018 页码：297 Achinstein, Peter Oxford University Press

Newton deplored speculation in science, Einstein reveled in it. What exactly are scientific speculations? Are they ever legitimate? Are they subject to constraints? This book defends a pragmatic approach to these issues and applies it to speculations within science (e.g., ones in fundamental physics) and to speculations about science (e.g., ones about simplicity, holism, and a "Theory of Everything").