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- Subject Area
- Science, Philosophy
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- Exploring the Scientific Method : Cases and Questions
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- University of Chicago Press
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- History & Surveys / General, Philosophy & Social Aspects, History, Research & Methodology
- Publication Year
- 2011
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- English
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From their grade school classrooms forward, students of science are encouraged to memorize and adhere to the "scientific method"--a model of inquiry consisting of five to seven neatly laid-out steps, often in the form of a flowchart. But walk into the office of a theoretical physicist or the laboratory of a biochemist and ask "Which step are you on?" and you will likely receive a blank stare. This is not how science works. But science does work, and here award-winning teacher and scholar Steven Gimbel provides students the tools to answer for themselves this question: What actually is the scientific method? Exploring the Scientific Method pairs classic and contemporary readings in the philosophy of science with milestones in scientific discovery to illustrate the foundational issues underlying scientific methodology. Students are asked to select one of nine possible fields--astronomy, physics, chemistry, genetics, evolutionary biology, psychology, sociology, economics, or geology--and through carefully crafted case studies trace its historical progression, all while evaluating whether scientific practice in each case reflects the methodological claims of the philosophers. This approach allows students to see the philosophy of science in action and to determine for themselves what scientists do and how they ought to do it. Exploring the Scientific Method will be a welcome resource to introductory science courses and all courses in the history and philosophy of science.
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University of Chicago Press
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0226294838
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9780226294834
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424 Pages
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English
Publication Name
Exploring the Scientific Method : Cases and Questions
Publication Year
2011
Subject
History & Surveys / General, Philosophy & Social Aspects, History, Research & Methodology
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Textbook
Subject Area
Science, Philosophy
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Trade Paperback
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0.1 in
Item Weight
20 Oz
Item Length
0.9 in
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0.6 in
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2010-039374
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22
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507.2/1
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Q175.3.E97 2011
Table of Content
Introduction How to Use This Book Syntactic View of Theories Deductivism Aristotle from Posterior Analytics and Physics René Descartes from Discourse on Method Case Studies Inductivism Francis Bacon from Novum Organum Isaac Newton from Principia John Stuart Mill from System of Logic Case Studies Hypothetico-Deductivism William Whewell from Novum Organum Renovatum Rudolf Carnap "Theoretical Procedures in Science" R. B. Braithwaite from Scientific Explanation Paradoxes of Evidence David Hume from Enquiry Nelson Goodman from Fact, Fiction, and Forecast Carl Hempel from "Studies in the Logic of Confirmation" Responses to the Paradoxes of Evidence Falsificationism Karl Popper from The Logic of Scientific Discovery Case Studies Holistic View of Theories Pierre Duhem from Aim and Structure of Physical Theory Thomas Kuhn from The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Imre Lakatos The Methodology of Research Programmes Case Studies Semantic View of Theories Marshall Spector "Models and Theories" Max Black "Models and Archetypes" Ronald Giere from Explaining Science Case Studies Critical Views of Scientific Theories Paul Feyerabend from Against Method Ruth Hubbard "Science, Facts, and Feminism" Bruno Latour "The Science Wars: A Dialogue" Case Studies Closing Remarks Deductivism Case Study Readings Astronomy Aristotle from On the Heavens Physics Epicurus from Letter to Herodotus Chemistry Paracelsus from Hermetic and Alchemical Writings Genetics Aristotle from On the Generation of Animals Evolutionary Biology Aristotle from On the Generation of Animals Geology John Woodward from An Essay towards a Natural History of the Earth Psychology Hippocrates from The Nature of Man, The Sacred Disease Sociology Thomas Hobbes from Leviathan Economics Aristotle from Politics Inductivism Case Study Readings Astronomy Ptolemy from Almagest Physics James Clerk Maxwell from "Molecules" Chemistry Robert Boyle from The Skeptical Chymist Genetics Gregor Mendel from Experiments in Plant Hybridization Evolutionary Biology Carolus Linnaeus from Systema Naturae Geology James Hutton from "System of the Earth" Psychology Heinrich Weber from "The Sense of Touch and the Common Feeling" Sociology Émile Durkheim from Suicide Economics François Quesnay from "Farmers" Bibliography Index
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