Scientific method : a historical and philosophical introduction /

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Main Author: Gower, Barry.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.
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300 |a vii, 276 p. :  |b ill. ;  |c 24 cm. 
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505 0 |a 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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