Perception and Discovery: An Introduction to Scientific Inquiry

Introduction
Part 1. Provocations and Restraints 1. On Philosophizing-and Some Logical Distinctions 2. Defining Conceptual Boundaries 3. Measuring and Counting: More Boundaries
Part 2. The Act of Scientific Seeing 4. There Is More to Seeing than Meets the Eye
5. Seeing the Same Thing 6. Seeing and Seeing As 7. Seeing As and Seeing That 8. Seeing, Saying, and Knowing 9. Spectacles behind the Eyes 10. Can We See Facts? 11. Facts and Seeing That
Part 3. Perplexity: the Process of Experimental Research 12. Waves, Particles, and Facts 13. Hypotheses Facta Fingunt 14. Scientific Simplicity and Crucial Experiments 15. The Systematic Side of Science 16. Discovering Causes and Becauses 17. What Happens as a Rule 18. Theory-Laden Language 19. The Scientists' Toolbox 20. Laws, Truths, and Hypotheses 21. Principles as Platitudes
Part 4. Probability and Probable Reasoning in Science 22. Frequencies and the Mathematics of Probability 23. Using and Interpreting the Probability Calculus 24. Elements of Statistical Technique 25. The Principle of Uniformity Revisited
Editor's Epilogue Index