3 - A Nature More Negotiable

Summary

Though the point of this book is to look at science, this chapter is concerned with visions of nature. That’s hard to avoid since the two are so closely intertwined. Surely science tells us what nature is like, and equally what we think nature is like surely affects how we interpret the activities and the results of science. This chapter is about how we can construct images of nature that make sense given what we see when we look at science, especially at its many successes and how they are achieved, as well as its many failures.