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Scientific method [electronic resource] : a historical and philosophical introduction / Barry Gower.

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author:	Gower, Barry
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.
Subjects:	Science > Methodology. Science > Methodology > Philosophy. Science > Methodology > History. History.

Table of Contents:

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.