Scientific Thinking, Second Edition

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Scientific Thinking provides comprehensive coverage of such topics as inductive reasoning, confirmation, demarcation, sampling, correlations, causality, hypotheses, experimental methods, and the role of values in science. Drawing examples from both the history of science and more modern scientific work, the book helps readers recognize the ongoing importance of developing good habits of scientific thinking. Questions and exercises are interspersed to encourage active reflection and engagement with new concepts and key cases as they arise in the book.

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