Re: "first form an hypothesis..."

[Cliff Parker <cparker@EMPOWERING.COM>]

> There is a very nice book that does a good job of
> illustrating that there is much more to science and the
> methods of doing science than the above mentioned paradigm.
> It is entitled "Science and Its Ways of Knowing", by John
> Hatton, Paul B. Plouffe (Contributor)  ISBN: 0132055767
> Amazon's Price: $30.90

Great book every scientific thinker or scientific thinker wantabe should
read this one!  One of my former students read it for a university
course he was taking.  He liked it so much he bought me a copy.  I loved
it.

Cliff Parker

> The publisher, Prentice-Hall
> Engineering/Science/Mathematics, says:
> This broad collection of accessible
> essays helps students develop a fuller
> appreciation of the nature of science and
> scientific knowledge in general and of
> their own discipline specialty within
> it. The focus throughout is on the
> relationships in science between fact
> and theory, about the nature of scientific
> theory, and about the kinds of claims
> on truth that science makes.
>
> ----------------------
> Bob Muir
> muirrob@uncg.edu