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The scientific method : reflections from a practitioner / Massimiliano Di Ventra.

Di Ventra, Massimiliano, author.
2018
Q175 .D623 2018 (Mapit)
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Title
The scientific method : reflections from a practitioner / Massimiliano Di Ventra.
Author
Di Ventra, Massimiliano, author.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
0198825625 (paperback)
9780198825623 (paperback)
Published
Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Language
English
Description
xi, 114 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Call Number
Q175 .D623 2018
Dewey Decimal Classification
501
Summary
"This book looks at how science investigates the natural world around us. It is an examination of the scientific method, the foundation of science and basis on which our scientific knowledge is built. ... [It] addresses all concepts pertaining to the scientific method. It includes discussions on objective reality, hypotheses and theory, and the fundamental and unalienable role of experimental evidence in scientific knowledge. ... Di Ventra also examines the limits of science and the errors we make when abusing its method in nonscientific contexts. By reflecting on the general method, the reader can critically sort through other types of scientific claims, and judge their ability to apply it in study and in practice."--Back cover.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Preface
1. Science without philosophy?
2. Material world and objective reality
3. First principles and logic
4. Natural phenomena and the primacy of experiment
5. Observation and experimentation
6. The role of human faith in science
7. Approximate and limited description of natural phenomena
8. Hypothesis
9. Theory
10. Competing theories
11. Can one theory be "derived" from another?
12. Verifying or falsifying? And what?
13. Don't be a masochist!
14. "Consensus" in science? What is that?
15. Flow chart of the scientific method
16. The "what" and "why" questions
17. "Scientism": abusing the scientific method
18. Final thoughts.

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