Theories of Scientific Method : an Introduction.
What is it to be scientific? Is there such a thing as scientific method? And if so, how might such methods be justified? Robert Nola and Howard Sankey seek to provide answers to these fundamental questions in their exploration of the major recent theories of scientific method. Although for many scie...
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| Language: | English |
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2014
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| Series: | Philosophy and science Theories of scientific method
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| Summary: | What is it to be scientific? Is there such a thing as scientific method? And if so, how might such methods be justified? Robert Nola and Howard Sankey seek to provide answers to these fundamental questions in their exploration of the major recent theories of scientific method. Although for many scientists their understanding of method is something they just pick up in the course of being trained, Nola and Sankey argue that it is possible to be explicit about what this tacit understanding of method is, rather than leave it as some unfathomable mystery. They robustly defend the idea that there i. |
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| Item Description: | 9.5 Bayesianism and inference to the best explanation. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (392 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781317493495 1317493494 1844650847 9781844650842 1844650855 9781844650859 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
