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Scientific method
About: Scientific method is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1644 publications have been published within this topic receiving 38074 citations. The topic is also known as: the scientific method & scientific process.
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TL;DR: Kaufmann as discussed by the authors surveys the general problems of scientific method, because of his belief that its chief issues are broadly identical in the natural and the social sciences, the difference between them being merely one of degree.
Abstract: PROF. F. KAUFMANN, formerly of Vienna and now at the New School of Social Research in New York, has long been concerned with problems of methodology. Here he attacks the most difficult of them, the methodology of the social sciences, though only in the second and shorter half of the book. In the first half he surveys the general problems of scientific method, because of his belief that its chief issues are broadly identical in the natural and the social sciences, the difference between them being merely one of degree. In the contrast between deductive reasoning and empirical procedure, around which he weaves his main argument, the author sees the key to "the solution of many apparently unrelated problems in natural and social science". Methodology of the Social Sciences By Prof. Felix Kaufmann. Pp. ix + 272. (London, New York and Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1944.) 20s. net.
1,970 citations
TL;DR: An overview of the methodological problems involved in the study of a single case is provided, scientific method is described, an elucidation of how a previously published MIS case study captures the major features of scientific method, and what a scientific methodology for MIS case studies does, and does not, involve are summarized.
Abstract: A methodology for conducting the case study of a management information system (MIS) is presented. Suitable for the study of a single case, the methodology also satisfies the standard of the natural science model of scientific research.This article provides an overview of the methodological problems involved in the study of a single case, describes scientific method, presents an elucidation of how a previously published MIS case study captures the major features of scientific method, responds to the problems involved in the study of a single case, and summarizes what a scientific methodology for MIS case studies does, and does not, involve.The article also has ramifications that go beyond matters of MIS case studies alone. For MIS researchers, the article might prove interesting for addressing such fundamental issues as whether MIS research must be mathematical, statistical, or quantitative in order to be called "scientific". For MIS practitioners, the article's view of scientific method might prove interesting for empowering them to identify, for themselves, the pint at which scientific rigor is achieved in an MIS research effort, and beyond which further rigor can be called into question, especially if pursued at the expense of professional relevance.
1,591 citations
Book•
1 Jan 1989
TL;DR: This new edition of Howson and Urbach's account of scientific method from the Bayesian standpoint includes chapter exercises and extended material on topics such as regression analysis, distributions densities, randomisation and conditionalisation.
Abstract: This is an updated, revised and enlarged edition of Howson and Urbach's account of scientific method from the Bayesian standpoint. The book offers both an introduction to probability theory and a philosophical commentary on scientific inference. This new edition includes chapter exercises and extended material on topics such as regression analysis, distributions densities, randomisation and conditionalisation.
1,416 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe three distinct methodological accounts of case study: theory generation, theory testing, and theory elaboration, and argue that each approach has its own idiosyncrasies, in particular when it comes to the interplay between theory and empirics.
1,241 citations
Book•
1 Jan 1934
TL;DR: The best representatives of logic in modern universities have travelled from the Aristotelian tradition which formerly prevailed as discussed by the authors, and this book, by two American teachers of philosophy, helps to show how far the best representative of logic and science have travelled.
Abstract: THIS book, by two American teachers of philosophy, helps to show how far the best representatives of logic in modern universities have travelled from the Aristotelian tradition which formerly prevailed. In an earlier generation Mill and Stanley Jevons, and later Neville Keynes, did much for the reshaping of the old formal logic, and for the development of an inductive logic which brought the subject into more vital relation with the methods of scientific investigation. In more recent times, logical theory has made progress in different directions, so that for educational purposes an eclectic treatment of the whole subject is desirable. Such a treatment is accomplished in this admirable book.An Introduction to Logic and Scientific Method.By Morris R. Cohen Ernest Nagel. Pp. xii + 467. (London: George Routledge and Sons, Ltd., 1934.) 15s. net.
784 citations
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| 2020 | 46 |
| 2019 | 45 |