Scientific Method: A Historical and Philosophical Introduction

Abstract

1. Introduction 2. Galileo Galilei: New Methods for a New Science 3. Francis Bacon: Why Experiments Matter 4. Isaac Newton: Rules for Reasoning Scientifically 5. The Bernoullis and Thomas Bayes: Probability and Scientific Method 6. John Herschel, John Stuart Mill and William Whewell: the Uses of Hypotheses 7. Henri Poincare and Pierre Duhem: Conventions and Scientific Reasoning 8. John Venn and Charles Pierce: Probabilities as Frequencies 9. John Maynard Keynes and Frank Ramsey: Probability Logic 10. Hans Reichenbach and Karl Popper: the (In)despensibility of Induction 11. Rudolf Carnap: Scientific Method as Bayesian Reasoning 12. Conclusion: Experimental Interventions and Social Constructions

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