Science Rules: A Historical Introduction to Scientific Methods

Science Rules: A Historical Introduction to Scientific Methods
ISBN-10
0801879434
ISBN-13
9780801879432
Category
Science
Pages
427
Language
English
Published
2004-09-24
Publisher
JHU Press
Author
Peter Achinstein

Description

Included is a famous nineteenth-century debate about scientific reasoning between the hypothetico-deductivist William Whewell and the inductivist John Stuart Mill; and an account of the realism-antirealism dispute about unobservables in science, with a consideration of Perrin's argument for the existence of molecules in the early twentieth century.

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