How we know
Subtitle: an exploration of the scientific process
By: Martin Goldstein and Inge F. Goldstein.
Contributors: Goldstein, Inge F., joint author.
Publisher: Plenum Press
Published: 1978
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 357
Subjects: Research -- Methodology; Physics -- Research -- Case studies; Medicine -- Research -- Case studies; Psychiatry -- Research -- Case studies
Description: 1) What is science?; 2) Facts; 3) Snow on cholera; 4) Is heat a substance?; 5) Who is mad?; 6) Science - search for understanding; 7) Science - the goal of generality; 8) Science - the experimental test; 9) The experimenter and the experiment; 10) Measurement and its pitfalls; 11) Where do hypotheses come from?; 12) The dispassionate scientist; 13) The cultural roots of science; 14) Logic and mathematics; 15) Probability; 16) Statistics.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.