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Robert M. Martin - Scientific Thinking

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Scientific Thinking is a practical guide to inductive reasoning - the sort of reasoning that is commonly used in scientific activity, whether such activity is performed by a scientist, a political pollster, or any one of us informally on a day-to-day basis. The book provides comprehensive coverage in twenty-three chapters divided into three parts: Induction, Proportions and Correlations, Explanations, and Cause. Martins text is wide-ranging but it is also concise and extremely accessible. Indeed, the book confounds those who would think that a discussion of such topics must be dry-as-dust. Martin begins with an account of Galileo making a telescope for himself and discovering the moons of Jupiter, and subsequent topics include Bathtubs and Dreams, Correlations between Snoring and Obesity and The Grue Emerald. If this text makes clear that the topic need not be at all boring, it also underlines the real importance of acquiring an understanding of habits of scientific thinking. Many of the examples are given an extended discussion, and many are descriptions of real-life cases of research into both the pure sciences and the social sciences. Also included is an extremely wide range of stimulating questions and exercises.

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title:Scientific Thinking
author:Martin, Robert M.
publisher:Broadview Press
isbn10 | asin:1551111306
print isbn13:9781551111308
ebook isbn13:9780585279596
language:English
subjectInduction (Logic) , Science--Methodology, Induction (Logique) , Sciences--Methodologie.
publication date:1997
lcc:BC199.S3.M3 1997eb
ddc:161
subject:Induction (Logic) , Science--Methodology, Induction (Logique) , Sciences--Methodologie.
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Scientific Thinking
By Robert M. Martin
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Robert M. Martin
Reprinted 2000
All rights reserved. The use of any part of this publication reproduced, transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, or stored in a retrieval system, without prior written consent of the publisheror in the case of photocopying, a licence from Cancopy (Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency) One Yonge Street, Suite 1900, Toronto, Ontario M5E 1E5is an infringement of the copyright law.
Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data
Martin, Robert M.
Scientific thinking
Includes index.
ISBN 1-55111-130-6
1. Induction (Logic). 2. Science-Methodology. I. Title.
BC91.M37 1997 161 C97-930386-9
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CONTENTS
Chapter 0: Not Your Usual Introduction
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0.1 Read this Chapter: It's not the Usual Silly Introduction
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0.2 What this Book is About
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0.3 Some Advice to Readers
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Part I: Induction, Proportions, Correlations
Chapter 1: Galileo and Mrs. Smith
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1.1 Mrs. Smith
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1.2 Galileo and his Telescope
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1.3 Bacon and the Holes in Your Head
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1.4 The End of the Story of the Number of Planets
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1.5 Falling Bodies
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1.6 Galileo on Falling Bodies
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1.7 Abstract Reasoning or Observation?
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1.8 Scientists don't Just Look: They Experiment
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1.9 It's not Just What You See
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1.10 Not Just ObservationAlso Measurement
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1.11 Hypothesis Sometimes Precedes Observation
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