TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gower,Barry
TI  - Scientific method: a historical and philosophical introduction 
SN  - 9780415122825
AV  - Q175 .G685 1997
U1  - 502.8 20
PY  - 1997///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Science
KW  - Methodology
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - History
N1  - 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
ER  -