Scientific Method: An Evolution of Thinking from Darwin to Dewey

by Henry M. Cowles

Book Overview

The surprising history of the scientific method--from an evolutionary account of thinking to a simple set of steps--and the rise of psychology in the nineteenth century.

The idea of a single scientific method, shared across specialties and teachable to ten-year-olds, is just over a hundred years old. For centuries prior, science had meant a kind of knowledge, made from facts gathered through direct observation or deduced from...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674976193
• ISBN13: 9780674976191
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.5" x 9.3"