1st Edition

The Scientific Attitude

By Frederick Grinnell Copyright 1988
141 Pages
by Routledge

141 Pages
by Routledge

141 Pages
by Routledge

Science is many things: a way of thinking and an activity of individuals in the laboratory; a highly structured institution that recruits, instructs, and regulates its members; a sensitive, interactive, and integrated segment of modern culture and society. Professor Frederick Grinnell presents in this valuable text and survey a clear and comprehensive introduction to all these aspects of science... Read more
Preface -- Introduction -- Making Observations -- Experimental Design and Interpretation -- Scientific Collectives: Transmission of the Thought Style -- Scientific Collectives: Maintaining the Thought Style -- Science and the world -- Concluding Comments

Biography

Frederick Grinnell is professor of cell biology and anatomy at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Dallas.