This is Philosophy of Science: An Introduction

Pillars of Science: Reasons, Knowledge, and Truth -- Evidence, Observation, and Measurement -- Uses of Evidence -- Evidence, Rationality, and Disagreement -- The Nature of Probability -- Do Not Be Misled: Confounds and Controls -- Physical Experiments and Their Design -- Experimental Methods That They Don't Teach -- Models: Useful Lies and Informative Fictions -- Causation and Causal Inference -- Strange Causation - Time Travel and Remote Action -- But Is Any of It Real? -- Explanation and Understanding -- Fundamental Theories and the Organization of Science -- Scientific Progress.

• | Author: Franz-Peter Griesmaier, Jeffrey Lockwood
• | Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• | Publication Date: Mar 29, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 304 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1119757991
• | ISBN-13: 9781119757993