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Sherlock Holmes as a Social Scientist

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2015

Veronica Ward
Affiliation:
Utah State University
John Orbell
Affiliation:
University of Oregon

Abstract

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For the Classroom
Copyright
Copyright © American Political Science Association 1988

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References

Notes

1. Baring-Gould, William S., ed., The Annotated Sherlock Holmes, Vol. II (New York: Charles N. Potter, Inc., 1967), p. 114Google Scholar. All reference to the Holmes stories throughout this essay refer to this two-volume edition.

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3. Commonly assigned works include Popper's, KarlConjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge, Second Edition (1965)Google Scholar, and The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1959); Hempel's, CarlAspects of Scientific Explanation and Other Essays in the Philosophy of Science (1965)Google Scholar, and Philosophy of Natural Science (1966); Kuhn's, ThomasThe Structure of Scien tific Revolutions, Second Edition, Enlarged (1970)Google Scholar; Lakatos, Irme' “Falsification and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programs,” in Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge, ed. Lakatos, I. and Musgrave, A. (1970)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Toulmin's, StephenForesight and Understanding (1961)Google Scholar.

4. Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.

5 The Adventure of the Second Stain,” I, p. 308Google Scholar.

6 The Problem of Thor Bridge,” I, p. 600Google Scholar.

7 The Valley of Fear,” I, p. 507Google Scholar.

8 A Study in Scarlet,” I, p. 154Google Scholar.

9 The Sign of the Four,” I, p. 612Google Scholar.

10 Ibid., I, p. 666.

11. The Valley of Fear,” I, p. 479.Google Scholar

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14. The Hound of the Baskervilles,” II, p. 17.Google Scholar

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19. The Adventure of the Copper Beeches,” II, p. 120.Google Scholar

20. The Boscombe Valley Mystery,” II, p. 137.Google Scholar

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