Scientific Method in Practice

Scientific Method in Practice

scientific foundations of surgical practice

Scientific Practice and Necessary Connections

In this paper I will introduce a problem for at least those Humeans who believe that the future is open. More particularly, I will argue that the following aspect of scientific practice cannot be explained by openfuture-Humeanism: There is a distinction between states that we cannot bring about (which are represented in scientific models as nomologically impossible) and states that we merely ha...

Safeguarding good scientific practice in Europe.

National governments invest in research and development with the intention of creating new jobs and commodities and of stimulating economic growth. At the same time, science is becoming a truly global enterprise owing to the increased ease of international collaboration and communication between research groups and the global mobility of scientists themselves. The globalization of science and i...

Developing open source scientific practice∗

3 Routine practice 8 3.1 Version control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 3.2 Execution automation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 3.3 Testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 3.4 Readability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....