Critical Reasoning and Science Looking at Science with an Investigative Eye

Name: Critical Reasoning and Science Looking at Science with an Investigative Eye
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ISBN: 9780761837947

ISBN-10: 0761837949

ISBN-13: 9780761837947

Edition: 2007

Authors: M. Andrew Holowchak

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Book details

List price: $67.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University Press of America, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/26/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 286
Size: 8.40" wide x 11.08" long x 0.77" tall
Weight: 1.716
Language: English



List of Figures



Introduction



Science & Critical Reasoning



What Is Science?



What Is Critical Reasoning?



Inductive & Deductive Reasoning



Critical Reasoning & Science



Philosophy of Science with an Investigative Eye



Science & Truth



Theories of Truth



Realism vs. Antirealism



Causation



What Is a Cause?



Mill's Methods



Causal Fallacies



Science and Progress



Experience & the Possibility of Knowledge



Logical Accounts of Science



Historical Accounts of Science



Scientific Practice with an Investigative Eye



Scientific Models



Three Types of Scientific Hypotheses



Theoretical Models, Hypotheses, & Theories



Evaluating Models



Competing Models



Exercises for Scientific Models



Statistical Hypotheses



Estimation & Proportion



Distribution & Correlation



Evaluating Statistical Hypotheses



Exercises for Statistical Hypotheses



Causal Hypotheses



Controlled Experiments & Data-Based Research



Evaluating Causal Hypotheses



Exercises for Causal Hypotheses



Science & Its Pretenders



Science & Non-Science



Science, Marginal Science, & Pseudo-Science



Exercises for Science, Marginal Science, & Pseudo-Science


Further Reading