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| Author | : J. Faye |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 347 |
| Release | : 2016-10-15 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1137389834 |
Scientific thinking must be understood as an activity. The acts of interpretation, representation, and explanation are the cognitive processes by which scientific thinking leads to understanding. The book explores the nature of these processes and describes how scientific thinking can only be grasped from a pragmatic perspective.
| Author | : David Dobbs |
| Publisher | : Pantheon |
| Total Pages | : 322 |
| Release | : 2009-02-25 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 0307490076 |
Explores the century-long controversy over the orgins of coral reefs, a debate that split the world of nineteenth-century science, looking at the diverse roles of Louis Agassiz, his son Alexander, and Charles Darwin and reflecting on how the search for the truth shed new light on the formation of Earth and its natural wonders.
| Author | : Richard Paul |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 71 |
| Release | : 2019-06-01 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 1538133849 |
The Thinker’s Guide to Scientific Thinking focuses on developing the intellectual skills inherent in the well-cultivated practice of every area of scientific research and study. It helps students and practicing scientists come to reason within the logic of science and to see the field as a cohesive whole. From astronomers to zoologists and physicists to chemists, skilled scientists use careful analysis to question data, test theories, draw logical conclusions, and propose feasible solutions. Students in science courses, and scientists themselves will find their analytical abilities enhanced by the engaging framework of inquiry set forth by Richard Paul and Linda Elder in this guide. As part of the Thinker’s Guide Library, this book advances the mission of the Foundation for Critical Thinking to promote fairminded critical societies through cultivating essential intellectual abilities and virtues across every field of study across world.
| Author | : Mari Murtonen |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 269 |
| Release | : 2019-09-21 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 3030242153 |
This book examines the learning and development process of students’ scientific thinking skills. Universities should prepare students to be able to make judgements in their working lives based on scientific evidence. However, an understanding of how these thinking skills can be developed is limited. This book introduces a new broad theory of scientific thinking for higher education; in doing so, redefining higher-order thinking abilities as scientific thinking skills. This includes critical thinking and understanding the basics of science, epistemic maturity, research and evidence-based reasoning skills and contextual understanding. The editors and contributors discuss how this concept can be redefined, as well as the challenges educators and students may face when attempting to teach and learn these skills. This edited collection will be of interest to students and scholars of student scientific skills and higher-order thinking abilities.
| Author | : Robert M. Martin |
| Publisher | : Broadview Press |
| Total Pages | : 347 |
| Release | : 1997-03-31 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1770482296 |
Scientific Thinking is a practical guide to inductive reasoning—the sort of reasoning that is commonly used in scientific activity, whether such activity is performed by a scientist, a reporter, a political pollster, or any one of us in day-to-day life. The book provides comprehensive coverage of such topics as confirmation, sampling, correlations, causality, hypotheses, and experimental methods. Martin’s writing confounds those who would think that such topics must be dry-as-dust, presenting ideas in a lively and engaging tone and incorporating amusing examples throughout. This book underlines the importance of acquiring good habits of scientific thinking, and helps to instill those habits in the reader. Stimulating questions and exercises are included in each chapter.
| Author | : Aaro Toomela |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 142 |
| Release | : 2019-11-05 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 3030314499 |
This brief sets out on a course to distinguish three main kinds of thought that underlie scientific thinking. Current science has not agreed on an understanding of what exactly the aim of science actually is, how to understand scientific knowledge, and how such knowledge can be achieved. Furthermore, no science today also explicitly admits the fact that knowledge can be constructed in different ways and therefore every scientist should be able to recognize the form of thought that under-girds their understanding of scientific theory. In response to this, this texts seeks to answer the questions: What is science? What is (scientific) explanation? What is causality and why it matters? Science is a way to find new knowledge. The way we think about the world constrains the aspects of it we can understand. Scientists, the author suggests, should engage in a metacognitive perspective on scientific theory that reflects not only what exists in the world, but also the way the scientist thinks about the world.
| Author | : Henry Hazlitt |
| Publisher | : Ludwig von Mises Institute |
| Total Pages | : 261 |
| Release | : 1916 |
| Genre | : Thought and thinking |
| ISBN | : 1610163206 |
"Books on thinking": pages 248-251.
| Author | : Lewis Wolpert |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 210 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9780674929814 |
Wolpert draws on the entire history of science, from Thales of Miletus to Watson and Crick, from the study of eugenics to the discovery of the double helix. The result is a scientist's view of the culture of science, authoritative, informed, and mercifully accessible to those who find cohabiting with this culture a puzzling experience.
| Author | : Edward P. Clapp |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 262 |
| Release | : 2016-12-05 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 1119259703 |
The Agency by Design guide to implementing maker-centered teaching and learning Maker-Centered Learning provides both a theoretical framework and practical resources for the educators, curriculum developers, librarians, administrators, and parents navigating this burgeoning field. Written by the expert team from the Agency by Design initiative at Harvard's Project Zero, this book Identifies a set of educational practices and ideas that define maker-centered learning, and introduces the focal concepts of maker empowerment and sensitivity to design. Shares cutting edge research that provides evidence of the benefits of maker-centered learning for students and education as a whole. Presents a clear Project Zero-based framework for maker-centered teaching and learning Includes valuable educator resources that can be applied in a variety of design and maker-centered learning environments Describes unique thinking routines that foster the primary maker capacities of looking closely, exploring complexity, and finding opportunity. A surge of voices from government, industry, and education have argued that, in order to equip the next generation for life and work in the decades ahead, it is vital to support maker-centered learning in various educational environments. Maker-Centered Learning provides insight into what that means, and offers tools and knowledge that can be applied anywhere that learning takes place.
| Author | : Robert G. Colodny |
| Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Pre |
| Total Pages | : 378 |
| Release | : 2010-11-23 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0822975890 |
The six essays in this volume discuss philosophical thought on scientific theory including:a call for a realist, rather than instrumentalist interpretation of science; a critique of one of the core ideas of positivism concerning the relation between observational and theoretical languages; using aerodynamics to discuss the representational aspect of scientific theories and their isomorphic qualities; the relationship between the reliability of common sense and the authenticity of the world view of science; removing long-held ambiguities on the theory of inductive logic; and the relationship between the actuality of conceptual revolutions in the history of science and traditional philosophical pictures of scientific theory-building.
