What Science Is and How It Really Works

What Science Is and How It Really Works
Contents
Acknowledgments
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Introduction
Part I
1 The Knowledge Problem, or What Can We Really “Know”?
2 Adding More Building Blocks of Human Reasoning to the Knowledge Problem
3 Holistic Coherence in Thinking, or Describing a System of How Humans Reason and Think
Part II
4 How Scientific Reasoning Differs from Other Reasoning
5 Natural Properties of a Rule-Governed World, or Why Scientists Study Certain Types of Things and Not Others
6 How Human Observation of the Natural World Can Differ from What the World Really Is
7 Detection of Patterns and Associations, or How Human Perceptions and Reasoning Complicate Understanding of Real-World Information
8 The Association of Ideas and Causes, or How Science Figures Out What Causes What
Part III
9 Remedies That Science Uses to Compensate for How Humans Tend to Make Errors
10 The Analysis of a Phantom Apparition, or Has Science Really Been Studied Yet?
11 The Societal Factor, or How Social Dynamics Affect Science
12 A Holistic World of Scientific Entities, or Considering the Forest and the Trees Together
13 Putting It All Together to Describe “What Science Is and How It Really Works”
About the Author
Index