附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Galileo Galilei : new methods for a new science -- Francis Bacon : why experiments matter -- Isaac Newton : rules for reasoning scientifically -- The Bernoullis and Thomas Bayes : probability and scientific method -- John Herschel, John Stuart Mill and William Whewell : the uses of hypotheses -- Henri Poincaré and Pierre Duhem : conventions and scientific reasoning -- John Venn and Charles Peirce : probabilities as frequencies -- John Maynard Keynes and Frank Ramsey : probability logic -- Hans Reichenbach and Karl Popper : the (in)dispensability of induction -- Rudolf Carnap : scientific method as Bayesian reasoning -- Conclusion : experimental interventions and social constructions.
