Recipes for Science: An Introduction to Scientific Methods and Reasoning
Autor Angela Potochnik, Matteo Colombo, Cory Wrighten Limba Engleză Hardback – 7 sep 2018
Key Features
- Contemporary and historical examples of science from many fields of physical, life, and social sciences.
- Visual aids to clarify and illustrate ideas.
- Text boxes to explore related topics.
- Plenty of exercises to ensure full student engagement and mastery of the information.
- Annotated 'Further Reading' sections at the end of each chapter.
- Final glossary with helpful definitions of key terms.
- A companion website with author-developed and crowdsourced materials, including syllabi for courses using this textbook, bibliography of additional resources and online materials, sharable PowerPoint presentations and lecture notes, and additional exercises and extended projects.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781138920729
ISBN-10: 113892072X
Pagini: 348
Ilustrații: 20 Line drawings, black and white; 20 Halftones, black and white; 22 Tables, black and white
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 113892072X
Pagini: 348
Ilustrații: 20 Line drawings, black and white; 20 Halftones, black and white; 22 Tables, black and white
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Cuprins
List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Science and Your Everyday Life; Chapter 1. What is Science?; 1.1 The Importance of Science; 1.2 Defining Science; 1.3 Recipes for Science; Chapter 2. Experiments and Studies; 2.1 Experiment: Connecting Hypotheses to Observations; 2.2 The Perfectly Controlled Experiment; 2.3 Experimental and Non-Experimental Methods; Chapter 3. Models and Modeling; 3.1 Models in Science; 3.2 Varieties of Models; 3.3 Learning from Models; Chapter 4. Patterns of Interference; 4.1 Deductive Reasoning; 4.2 Deductive Reasoning in Hypothesis-Testing; 4.3 Inductive and Abductive Reasoning; 5. Statistics and Probability; 5.1 The Roles of Statistics and Probability; 5.2 Basic Probability Theory; 5.3 Descriptive Statistics; Chapter 6. Statistical Inference; 6.1 Generalizing from Descriptive Statistics; 6.2 Using Statistics to Test Hypotheses; 6.3 A Different Approach to Statistical Inference; Chapter 7. Causal Reasoning; 7.1 What is Causation?; 7.2 Testing Causal Hypotheses; 7.3 Causal Modeling; Chapter 8. Explanations, Theories, and Values; 8.1 Understanding the World; 8.2 Theories and Theory Change; 8.3 Science, Society, and Values; Glossary; References; Index
Notă biografică
Angela Potochnik is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Public Engagement with Science at the University of Cincinnati, USA.
Matteo Colombo is Assistant Professor in the Tilburg Center for Logic, Ethics, and Philosophy of Science, and in the Department of Philosophy at Tilburg University, the Netherlands.
Cory Wright is Professor of Philosophy and Director of Graduate Studies at California State University Long Beach, USA.
Matteo Colombo is Assistant Professor in the Tilburg Center for Logic, Ethics, and Philosophy of Science, and in the Department of Philosophy at Tilburg University, the Netherlands.
Cory Wright is Professor of Philosophy and Director of Graduate Studies at California State University Long Beach, USA.
Recenzii
". . . a wonderfully useful description of how science works. The examples are informative and effective. The exercises are imaginative, both thoughtful and thought-provoking. And the components of scientific method are clearly presented with enough detail to see not only how they work but both their strengths and limitations. All the tools are there. You probably knew what tools would be used, but with this book you will understand the variety and application with greater clarity and a better appreciation for the value of science. Recipes for Sciencewill help you sharpen the tools and keep them sharp."
Peter Kosso, in Science & Education
"More often than not students acquire content knowledge about science, deprived from any explicit reflection about the methods, the reasoning and the uncertainties that characterize it. Even laboratory activities can take the form of implementing a cookbook recipe, simply following predetermined steps towards a "correct" answer. But this is not how science is done. If there are recipes, they are open to creativity and they vary enormously. Recipes for Scienceexcellently shows this and provides very useful materials for explicit reflection about the nature of science."
Kostas Kampourakis, University of Geneva, Switzerland
"Recipes for Science is clear and very readable, providing students with a solid philosophical background in issues surrounding scientific reasoning and methodologies, fleshed out with well-chosen, compelling examples. Either on its own, or as a basis from which to build, this will be a welcome text in scientific reasoning and philosophy of science classes."
Jonathan Michael Kaplan, Oregon State University
Peter Kosso, in Science & Education
"More often than not students acquire content knowledge about science, deprived from any explicit reflection about the methods, the reasoning and the uncertainties that characterize it. Even laboratory activities can take the form of implementing a cookbook recipe, simply following predetermined steps towards a "correct" answer. But this is not how science is done. If there are recipes, they are open to creativity and they vary enormously. Recipes for Scienceexcellently shows this and provides very useful materials for explicit reflection about the nature of science."
Kostas Kampourakis, University of Geneva, Switzerland
"Recipes for Science is clear and very readable, providing students with a solid philosophical background in issues surrounding scientific reasoning and methodologies, fleshed out with well-chosen, compelling examples. Either on its own, or as a basis from which to build, this will be a welcome text in scientific reasoning and philosophy of science classes."
Jonathan Michael Kaplan, Oregon State University
Descriere
The book is designed to help undergraduates (at any instructional level) better understand the methods and rational structure of scientific inquiry. Recipes for Science is essential for any college student’s basic scientific education.