Scientific method : a historical and philosophical introduction / Barry Gower.
Material type: TextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.Description: vii, 276 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780415122825
- 9780415122818
- 502.8 20
- Q175 .G685 1997
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [262]-271) and index.
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 Poincar ̌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.