The Experience of Science. An Interdisciplinary Approach.

Goldstein, Martin and Inge Goldstein:

ISBN 10: 0306415380 / ISBN 13: 9780306415388

Published by Plenum Press, New York and London, 1976

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XXIV, 400 Seiten mit zahlreichen Abbildungen, 0306415380 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 740 Groß 8°, Original-Pappband (Hardcover), Bibliotheks-Exemplar mit Rückenschild, Stempel auf Vorsatz, Titel, Schnitt und innen, insgesamt gutes und innen sauberes Exemplar, (library copy in good condition),

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Experience of Science. An Interdisciplinary Approach.
• Publisher: Plenum Press, New York and London
• Publication Date: 1976
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0306415380
• ISBN 13: 9780306415388
• Binding: Hardcover
• Weight: 740 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Naturwissenschaften

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Synopsis

Our earlier book, How We Know: An Exploration of the Scientific Process, was written to give some conception of what the scientific approach is like, how to recognize it, how to distinguish it from other approaches to understanding the world, and to give some feeling for the intellectual excitement and aesthetic satisfactions of science. These goals represented our concept of the term "scientific literacy." Though the book was written for the general reader, to our surprise and gratification it was also used as a text in about forty colleges, and some high schools, for courses in science for the non-scientist, in methodology of science for social and behavioral sciences, and in the philosophy of science. As a result we were encouraged to write a textbook with essentially the same purpose and basic approach, but at a level appropriate to college students. We have drawn up problems for those chapters that would benefit from them, described laboratory experiments that illustrate important points discussed in the text, and made suggestions for additional readings, term papers, and other projects. Throughout the book we have introduced a number of chapters and appendices that provide examples of the uses of quantitative thinking in the sciences: logic, math­ ematics, probability, statistics, and graphical representation.