Scientific Thinking, Second Edition
May 2026 · Broadview Press
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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.
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 scientifi...
About the author
Robert M. Martin is Professor of Philosophy (retired) at Dalhousie University and author of many books, including Philosophical Conversations and the best-seller There Are Two Errors in the the Title of This Book.
Archie Fields III is Philosophy Editor at Broadview Press and holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Calgary. He has taught courses in the history and philosophy of science, and his work has appeared in Biology and Philosophy and other journals.
Robert M. Martin is Professor of Philosophy (retired) at Dalhousie University and author of many books, including Philosophical Conversations and the best-seller There Are Two Errors in the the Title of This Book.
Archie Fields III is Philosophy Editor at Broadview Press and holds a PhD in Philos...
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