Theory and evidence : the development of scientific reasoning /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
©1996.
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| Series: | Learning, development, and conceptual change
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1406 |
Table of Contents:
- The role of mechanism and alternative accounts in formal-operational, causal, and scientific reasoning
- Disconfirming and anomalous evidence
- When non-humean indices replace or override covariation
- Beliefs about covariation and causal mechanisms
- implausible as well as plausible
- Assessing internal and external validity
- Evaluating explanations in light of alternative accounts
- Rendering implausible causes plausible
- Deciding whether anomalies refine a theory or call it into question
- Disconfirming mechanism and covariation components of a theory
- Confirmation, disconfirmation, and differing views of scientific inquiry
- Spontaneous generation of appropriate tests, causal mechanisms, and alternative hypotheses
- General summary and conclusions.