Scientific method : a historical and philosophical introduction /

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The results, conclusions and claims of natural science are often taken to be reliable because they arise from the use of a distinctive method. Yet today, there is widespread scepticism as to whether we can validly talk of method in modern science. This outstanding new survey explains how this contro...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Gower, Barry
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.
Sujets:
Science > Methodology.
Science > Methodology > Philosophy.
Science > Methodology > History.
Sciences > Méthodologie.
Sciences > Méthodologie > Histoire.
SCIENCE > General.
Science > Methodology
Science > Methodology > Philosophy
Wetenschapsfilosofie.
Methodologie.
History
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Table des matières:
  • Introduction
  • Galileo Galilei : new methods for a new science
  • Francis Bacon : why experiments matter
  • Isaac Newton : rules for reasoning scientifically
  • The Bernoullis and Thomas Bayes : probability and scientific method
  • John Herschel, John Stuart Mill and William Whewell : the uses of hypotheses
  • Henri Poincaré and Pierre Duhem : conventions and scientific reasoning
  • John Venn and Charles Peirce : probabilities as frequencies
  • John Maynard Keynes and Frank Ramsey : probability logic
  • Hans Reichenbach and Karl Popper : the (in)dispensability of induction
  • Rudolf Carnap : scientific method as Bayesian reasoning
  • Conclusion : experimental interventions and social constructions.

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