Description
The central theme running throughout this outstanding new survey is the nature of the philosophical debate created by modern science’s foundation in experimental and mathematical method. Key chapters critically discuss * Galileo’s demonstrative method, Bacon’s inductive method, and Newton’s rules of reasoning * the rise of probabilistic Bayesian’ methods in the eighteenth century * the method of hypotheses through the work of Herschel, Mill and Whewell * the conventionalist views of Poincare and Duhem * the inductivism of Peirce, Russell and Keynes * Popper’s falsification compared with Reichenbach’s enumerative induction * Carnap’s scientific method as Bayesian reasoning
