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Afterword

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 June 2022

J. Scott Armstrong  and
Kesten C. Green
By
Terence Kealey
J. Scott Armstrong
Affiliation:
Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Kesten C. Green
Affiliation:
University of South Australia
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Summary

As recently as 2005, the study of the scientific method centered on the writings of scholars such as Francis Bacon, René Descartes, Karl Popper, Paul Feyerabend, Imre Lakatos, and Thomas Kuhn, as was discussed by Alan Chalmers in his superb introductory book What is This Thing Called Science? (1976 [2013]).

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The Scientific Method
A Guide to Finding Useful Knowledge
 , pp. 170 - 174
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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