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008			960325s1997 enka b 001 0 eng
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040			_cRSC
050	0	0	_aQ175 _b.G685 1997
082	0	0	_a502.8 _220
100	1		_aGower, Barry.
245	1	0	_aScientific method : _ba historical and philosophical introduction / _cBarry Gower.
260			_aLondon ; _aNew York : _bRoutledge, _c1997.
300			_avii, 276 p. : _bill. ; _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [262]-271) and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction -- 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.
650		0	_aScience _xMethodology.
650		0	_aScience _xMethodology _xPhilosophy.
650		0	_aScience _xMethodology _xHistory.
942			_2ddc _cBOOK
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