Styles of Knowing

Styles of Knowing - Styles of Scientific Thinking

Chunglin Kwa, Styles of Knowing: A New History of Science from Ancient Times to the Present, Pittsburgh: The University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011 (366 pp.).

Contents

1   Introduction: The Six Styles of Knowing

2   The Deductive Style of Science

3   The Deductive Style in a Christian Context

4   From Scholar to Virtuoso: The Renaissance Origin of the Experimental Style

5   The Experimental Style II: The Skeptics and their Opponents

6   The Experimental Style III: Alchemy and the New Sciences

7   The Hypothetical Style: Analogies between Nature and Technology

8   The Taxonomic Style

9   Statistical Analysis as a Style of Science

10  The Evolutionary Style

11  Science in the Twentieth Century