| Description |
vii, 276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [262]-271) and index. |
| 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 |
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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. |
| Subject |
Science -- Methodology.
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Science -- Methodology -- Philosophy.
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Science -- Methodology -- History.
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| ISBN |
0415122813 |
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0415122821 paperback |
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