Theories of scientific method
Print Book,English, 2007
McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal, 2007
Textbooks
x, 381 pages ; 24 cm.
9780773533455, 9780773533448, 0773533451, 0773533443
1019942749
I. The idea of methodology
1. What is this thing called scientific method?
2. Theoretical values in science
3. Rules and principles of method
4. Metamethodology
II. Inductive and hypothetico-deductive methods
5. Induction in science
6. Some justifications of induction
7. The hypothetico-deductive method
III. Probability and scientific method
8. Probability, Bayesianism and methodology
9. Bayesianism: applications and problems
IV. Popper and his rivals
10. Popper, Lakatos and scientific method
11. Kuhn and Feyerabend
V. Naturalism, pragmatism, realism and methodology
12. Naturalism, pragmatism and method
13. Scientific realism and methodology