Induction and Intuition in Scientific Thought: Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 75) (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780871690753)

Why are most scientists indifferent to scientific methodology? The answer: 'because what passes for scientific methodology is a misrepresentation of what scientists do.' This book explores what is wrong with the traditional methodology of 'inductive' reasoning; the alternative scheme of reasoning can give the scientist a certain limited but useful insight into the way he thinks. The force of scientific enquiry comes from a preconception of what might be true -- which is exposed to critical analysis, to find out whether or not the imagined world corresponds with the real one. It is essentially a dialogue between imaginative insight and critical appraisal; between the possible and the actual; between what could be true and what is in fact the case.

Author: Peter Brian Medawar
ISBN-10: 0871690756
ISBN-13: 9780871690753
Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
Language: English
Published: 01/01/1969
Pages: 62
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.31d