The Scientific Method
Reflections from a Practitioner
Price: 850.00 INR
We sell our titles through other companies
Disclaimer :You will be redirected to a third party website.The sole responsibility of supplies, condition of the product, availability of stock, date of delivery, mode of payment will be as promised by the said third party only. Prices and specifications may vary from the OUP India site.
ISBN:
9780198825623
Publication date:
10/09/2018
Paperback
128 pages
200x128mm
Price: 850.00 INR
We sell our titles through other companies
Disclaimer :You will be redirected to a third party website.The sole responsibility of supplies, condition of the product, availability of stock, date of delivery, mode of payment will be as promised by the said third party only. Prices and specifications may vary from the OUP India site.
ISBN:
9780198825623
Publication date:
10/09/2018
Paperback
128 pages
Massimiliano Di Ventra
Lively and concise explanation of the importance of the scientific method,An insight into scientific methodology from the perspective of a daily practitioner,Examples illustrating how the general method can be applied
Rights: OUP UK (INDIAN TERRITORY)
Massimiliano Di Ventra
Description
This book looks at how science investigates the natural world around us. It is an examination of the scientific method, the foundation of science, and basis on which our scientific knowledge is built on. Written in a clear, concise, and colloquial style, the book addresses all concepts pertaining to the scientific method. It includes discussions on objective reality, hypotheses and theory, and the fundamental and inalienable role of experimental evidence in scientific knowledge.
This collection of personal reflections on the scientific methodology shows the observations and daily uses of an experienced practitioner. Massimiliano Di
Ventra also examines the limits of science and the errors we make when abusing its method in contexts that are not scientific, for example, in policymaking. By reflecting on the general method, the reader can critically sort through other types of scientific claims, and judge their ability to apply it in study and in practice.
About the author
Massimiliano Di Ventra, Professor of Physics, University of California, San Diego, USAMassimiliano Di Ventra is Professor of Physics at the University of California, San Diego. His research interests are in the theory of electronic and transport properties of nanoscale systems, non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, DNA sequencing/polymer dynamics in nanopores, and memory effects in nanostructures for applications in unconventional computing and biophysics. He has been invited to deliver more than 270 talks worldwide on these topics.
Massimiliano Di Ventra
Table of contents
1:Science without Philosophy?
2:Material World and Objective Reality
3:First Principles and Logic
4:Natural Phenomena and the Primacy of Experiment
5:Observation and Experimentation
6:The Role of Human Faith in Science
7:Approximate and Limited Description of Natural Phenomena
8:Hypothesis
9:Theory
10:Competing Theories
11:Can One Theory be "Derived" from Another?
12:Verifying or Falsifying? And What?
13:Don't be a Masochist!
14:"Consensus" in Science? What is That?
15:Flow Chart of the Scientific Method
16:The "What" and "Why" Questions
17:"Scientism": Abusing the Scientific Method
18:Final Thoughts
Further Readings
About the Author
Index
Massimiliano Di Ventra
Description
This book looks at how science investigates the natural world around us. It is an examination of the scientific method, the foundation of science, and basis on which our scientific knowledge is built on. Written in a clear, concise, and colloquial style, the book addresses all concepts pertaining to the scientific method. It includes discussions on objective reality, hypotheses and theory, and the fundamental and inalienable role of experimental evidence in scientific knowledge.
This collection of personal reflections on the scientific methodology shows the observations and daily uses of an experienced practitioner. Massimiliano Di
Ventra also examines the limits of science and the errors we make when abusing its method in contexts that are not scientific, for example, in policymaking. By reflecting on the general method, the reader can critically sort through other types of scientific claims, and judge their ability to apply it in study and in practice.
About the author
Massimiliano Di Ventra, Professor of Physics, University of California, San Diego, USAMassimiliano Di Ventra is Professor of Physics at the University of California, San Diego. His research interests are in the theory of electronic and transport properties of nanoscale systems, non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, DNA sequencing/polymer dynamics in nanopores, and memory effects in nanostructures for applications in unconventional computing and biophysics. He has been invited to deliver more than 270 talks worldwide on these topics.
Table of contents
1:Science without Philosophy?
2:Material World and Objective Reality
3:First Principles and Logic
4:Natural Phenomena and the Primacy of Experiment
5:Observation and Experimentation
6:The Role of Human Faith in Science
7:Approximate and Limited Description of Natural Phenomena
8:Hypothesis
9:Theory
10:Competing Theories
11:Can One Theory be "Derived" from Another?
12:Verifying or Falsifying? And What?
13:Don't be a Masochist!
14:"Consensus" in Science? What is That?
15:Flow Chart of the Scientific Method
16:The "What" and "Why" Questions
17:"Scientism": Abusing the Scientific Method
18:Final Thoughts
Further Readings
About the Author
Index
Jim Baggott
Timothy Clifton
Debasish Datta
Pierre Binétruy
Geoff Cottrell
William J. Mullin
Quantum Mechanics for Beginners
M. Suhail Zubairy
The Oxford Handbook of Networked Communication
Brooke Foucault Welles, Sandra González-Bailón, 3
Frank Close
Jim Baggott
