"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 first principles. But during the n...

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1. Verfasser:	Cowles, Henry M. 1985- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England Harvard University Press 2020
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1850-1950 Wissenschaftsphilosophie Wissenschaftstheorie Methode Wissenschaft Science / Methodology / History Science / Philosophy / History Evolution Science / Methodology Science / Philosophy History
Zusammenfassung:	"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 first principles. But during the nineteenth century, science came to mean something else: a way of thinking. The Scientific Method tells the story of how this approach took hold in laboratories, the field, and eventually classrooms, where science was once taught as a natural process. Henry M. Cowles reveals the intertwined histories of evolution and experiment, from Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection to John Dewey's vision for science education. Darwin portrayed nature as akin to a man of science, experimenting through evolution, while his followers turned his theory onto the mind itself. Psychologists reimagined the scientific method as a problem-solving adaptation, a basic feature of cognition that had helped humans prosper. This was how Dewey and other educators taught science at the turn of the twentieth century-but their organic account was not to last. Soon, the scientific method was reimagined as a means of controlling nature, not a product of it. By shedding its roots in evolutionary theory, the scientific method came to seem far less natural, but far more powerful. This book reveals the origin of a fundamental modern concept. Once seen as a natural adaptation, the method soon became a symbol of science's power over nature, a power that, until recently, has rarely been called into question"--
Beschreibung:	Includes index
Beschreibung:	372 Seiten 24 cm
ISBN:	9780674976191