Our earlier book, How We Know: An Exploration of the Scientific Process, was written to give some conception of what the scientific approach is like, how to recognize it, how to distinguish it from other approaches to understanding the world, and to give some feeling for the intellectual excitement and aesthetic satisfactions of science.
1 What Is Science?.- 2 Facts.- 3 Logic.- 4 Snow on Cholera.- 5 Mathematics.- 6 Is Heat a Substance?.- 7 Probability.- 8 What Is Madness? The Scientific Study of Mental Disorders.- 9 Statistics.- 10 Science—The Search for Understanding.- 11 Science—The Goal of Generality.- 12 Science—The Experimental Test.- 13 The Experimenter and the Experiment.- 14 Measurement and Its Pitfalls.- 15 Graphs and Sketches.- 16 Where Do Hypotheses Come From?.- 17 The Dispassionate Scientist.- 18 The Cultural Roots of Science.