Author : J. Faye
Publisher : Springer
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 25,19 MB
Release : 2016-10-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 1137389834
Scientific thinking must be understood as an activity. The acts of interpretation, representation, and explanation are the cognitive processes by which scientific thinking leads to understanding. The book explores the nature of these processes and describes how scientific thinking can only be grasped from a pragmatic perspective.
Author : David Cayley
Publisher :
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 50,79 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Science
ISBN :
Interviews broadcast on the How to think about science segment of the CBC radio show Ideas.
Author : David Dobbs
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 20,76 MB
Release : 2009-02-25
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0307490076
Explores the century-long controversy over the orgins of coral reefs, a debate that split the world of nineteenth-century science, looking at the diverse roles of Louis Agassiz, his son Alexander, and Charles Darwin and reflecting on how the search for the truth shed new light on the formation of Earth and its natural wonders.
Author : Richard Paul
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 39,62 MB
Release : 2019-06-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 1538133849
The Thinker’s Guide to Scientific Thinking focuses on developing the intellectual skills inherent in the well-cultivated practice of every area of scientific research and study. It helps students and practicing scientists come to reason within the logic of science and to see the field as a cohesive whole. From astronomers to zoologists and physicists to chemists, skilled scientists use careful analysis to question data, test theories, draw logical conclusions, and propose feasible solutions. Students in science courses, and scientists themselves will find their analytical abilities enhanced by the engaging framework of inquiry set forth by Richard Paul and Linda Elder in this guide. As part of the Thinker’s Guide Library, this book advances the mission of the Foundation for Critical Thinking to promote fairminded critical societies through cultivating essential intellectual abilities and virtues across every field of study across world.
Author : Mari Murtonen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 49,19 MB
Release : 2019-09-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 3030242153
This book examines the learning and development process of students’ scientific thinking skills. Universities should prepare students to be able to make judgements in their working lives based on scientific evidence. However, an understanding of how these thinking skills can be developed is limited. This book introduces a new broad theory of scientific thinking for higher education; in doing so, redefining higher-order thinking abilities as scientific thinking skills. This includes critical thinking and understanding the basics of science, epistemic maturity, research and evidence-based reasoning skills and contextual understanding. The editors and contributors discuss how this concept can be redefined, as well as the challenges educators and students may face when attempting to teach and learn these skills. This edited collection will be of interest to students and scholars of student scientific skills and higher-order thinking abilities.
Author : Robert M. Martin
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 10,6 MB
Release : 1997-03-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1770482296
Scientific Thinking is a practical guide to inductive reasoning—the sort of reasoning that is commonly used in scientific activity, whether such activity is performed by a scientist, a reporter, a political pollster, or any one of us in day-to-day life. The book provides comprehensive coverage of such topics as confirmation, sampling, correlations, causality, hypotheses, and experimental methods. Martin’s writing confounds those who would think that such topics must be dry-as-dust, presenting ideas in a lively and engaging tone and incorporating amusing examples throughout. This book underlines the importance of acquiring good habits of scientific thinking, and helps to instill those habits in the reader. Stimulating questions and exercises are included in each chapter.
Author : Henry Hazlitt
Publisher : Ludwig von Mises Institute
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 34,76 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Thought and thinking
ISBN : 1610163206
"Books on thinking": pages 248-251.
Author : Aaro Toomela
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 14,40 MB
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 3030314499
This brief sets out on a course to distinguish three main kinds of thought that underlie scientific thinking. Current science has not agreed on an understanding of what exactly the aim of science actually is, how to understand scientific knowledge, and how such knowledge can be achieved. Furthermore, no science today also explicitly admits the fact that knowledge can be constructed in different ways and therefore every scientist should be able to recognize the form of thought that under-girds their understanding of scientific theory. In response to this, this texts seeks to answer the questions: What is science? What is (scientific) explanation? What is causality and why it matters? Science is a way to find new knowledge. The way we think about the world constrains the aspects of it we can understand. Scientists, the author suggests, should engage in a metacognitive perspective on scientific theory that reflects not only what exists in the world, but also the way the scientist thinks about the world.
Author : Robert J. Sternberg
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 14,86 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780262692120
This book is the first to introduce the study of cognition in terms of the major conceptual themes that underlie virtually all the substantive topics.
Author : Rom Harré
Publisher :
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 48,65 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Philosophy
ISBN :
