- Author
- Year
- 2011
- Title
- Styles of knowing: a new history of science from ancient times to the present
- Number of pages
- 366
- Publisher
- Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press
- ISBN
- 9780822961512
- Document type
- Book
- Faculty
- Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG)
- Institute
- Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR)
- Abstract
-
Inspired by A. C. Crombie's Styles of Scientific Thinking in the European Tradition, Kwa offers a full overview of scientific development in cultural and historical context. He introduces readers to the different forms of reasoning used by different sciences. Each chapter examines a different scientific style, illuminating how each style emerges gradually and continues to evolve. Older styles sometimes combine with newer while each also still continues along a solo trajectory. Styles investigated include the deductive, the experimental, the analogical-hypothetical, the taxonomic, the statistical, and the evolutionary. Although primarily designed for use in the classroom, this sophisticated book is also accessible to nonspecialists.
- Language
- English
- Note
- Transl. of: De ontdekking van het weten: een andere geschiedenis van de wetenschap. - Amsterdam : Boom, 2005
- Persistent Identifier
- https://hdl.handle.net/11245/1.348281
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