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· 제목 : Perception and Discovery: An Introduction to Scientific Inquiry (Paperback)
· 분류 : 외국도서 > 과학/수학/생태 > 과학 > 과학철학/과학사회
· ISBN : 9783030099084
· 쪽수 : 339쪽
· 출판일 : 2018-12-22
· 분류 : 외국도서 > 과학/수학/생태 > 과학 > 과학철학/과학사회
· ISBN : 9783030099084
· 쪽수 : 339쪽
· 출판일 : 2018-12-22
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Introduction
Part 1. Provocations and Restraints
1. On Philosophizing?and Some Logical Distinctions
2. Defining Conceptual Boundaries
3. Measuring and Counting: More Boundaries
Part 2. The Act of Scientific Seeing
4. There Is More to Seeing than Meets the Eye
5. Seeing the Same Thing
6. Seeing and Seeing As
7. Seeing As and Seeing That
8. Seeing, Saying, and Knowing
9. Spectacles behind the Eyes
10. Can We See Facts?
11. Facts and Seeing That
Part 3. Perplexity: the Process of Experimental Research
12. Waves, Particles, and Facts
13. Hypotheses Facta Fingunt
14. Scientific Simplicity and Crucial Experiments
15. The Systematic Side of Science
16. Discovering Causes and Becauses
17. What Happens as a Rule
18. Theory-Laden Language
19. The Scientists’ Toolbox
20. Laws, Truths, and Hypotheses
21. Principles as Platitudes
Part 4. Probability and Probable Reasoning in Science
22. Frequencies and the Mathematics of Probability
23. Using and Interpreting the Probability Calculus
24. Elements of Statistical Technique
25. The Principle of Uniformity Revisited
Editor’s Epilogue
Index
