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Foundations of scientific method : the nineteenth century / edited by Ronald N. Giere and Richard S. Westfall.
LIBRA - Rare Q175 .F72 1973 Adams copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--Methodology--Congresses.
- Science.
- Science--Methodology.
- Science--Philosophy--Congresses.
- Science--Philosophy.
- Science--History--19th century--Congresses.
- History.
- Philosophy.
- Science--history.
- Science--Methodology--History.
- Science--History.
- Medical Subjects:
- Philosophy.
- Science.
- Science--history.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adams, Mark B. (former owner) (autograph, June, 1973) (Adams copy)
- Physical Description:
- ix pages, 1 unnumbered page, 306 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [1973]
- Contents:
- Kant, Naturphilosophie and scientific method / L. Pearce Williams
- Leading principles and induction: the methodology of Matthais Schleiden / Gerd Buchdahl
- Whewell's logic of induction / Robert E. Butts
- Logic of discovery in Maxwell's electromagnetic theory / Mary Hesse
- Charles Darwin and nineteenth-century philosophies of science / David L. Hull
- The genesis and structure of Claude Bernard's experimental method / Joseph Schiller
- Chabry, Roux, and the experimental method in nineteenth-century embryology / Frederick B. Churchill
- Statistics and social science / Victor L. Hilts
- Alfred Marshall and the development of economics as a science / H. Scott Gordon
- Grove Karl Gilbert and the concept of "hypothesis" in late nineteenth-century geology / David B. Kitts
- Peirce and the trivialization of the self-correcting thesis / Laurens Laudan.
- Notes:
- Papers presented at a conference held in Bloomington, Nov. 26-29, 1970, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the founding of the Dept. of History and Philosophy of Science at Indiana University.
- "Copyright ©1973 by Indiana University Press"--verso of title page.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center copy gifted by Dr. Mark B. Adams in 2018.
- Kislak Center Adams copy retains dust jacket.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Foundations of scientific method.
- ISBN:
- 0253324009
- 9780253324009
- OCLC:
- 595348
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