Scientific Thinking
"an excellent introduction...  renders a number of complex and difficult topics very accessible.... Martin has done an excellent job." (Teaching Philosophy)"Scientific Thinking is admirably clear and linear. It takes the student from the elementary position of undirected observation through problems in sampling to issues in explanation, causation and classification. The book's informal language helps to make it easy to understand such things as the need for and practical difficulties involved with random sampling.... Scientific and historical examples are presented in an especially illuminating way." (Carl Matheson)