Scientific Method
A Historical and Philosophical Introduction
Price: $135.00
Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-415-12281-8
- Binding: Hardback (also available in Paperback)
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 14th November 1996
- Pages: 288
About the Book
Scientific Method: A Historical and Philosophical Introduction* introduces readers to controversies concerning method in the natural sciences
* provides a historical seventeenth and eighteenth century context to these issues
* shows that questions of method have played a vital role in the work of scientists
* challenges the current view that scientific method is a philosophical fiction
Questions of scientific method are discussed through key figures such as Galileo, Bacon, Newton, Bayes, Darwin, Poincaré, Duhem, Popper, and Carnap. The concluding chapters contain stimulating discussions of attacks on the idea of scientific method by other key figures such as Kuhn, Lakatos, and Feyerabend.