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The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science

By Michael Strevens
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By Michael Strevens
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“The Knowledge Machine is the most stunningly illuminating book of the last several decades regarding the all-important scientific enterprise.” —Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of Plato at the Googleplex

A paradigm-shifting work, The Knowledge Machine revolutionizes our understanding of the origins and structure of science.

• Why is science so powerful?

• Why did it take so long—two thousand years after the invention of philosophy and mathematics—for the human race to start using science t...

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