Anders reviewed The Scientific Attitude by Lee McIntyre
Better after a tedious start
4 stars
Bought this book from Amazon end of May 2024, and it took several months before it arrived beginning of October, even though the book was supposed to be available during this time when i checked. Apparently Amazon does not value me as a customer any more, which I suppose is fine.
The book itself sounded more interesting than what I found after reading the first four chapters. The book goes into details about what is science and what is not and the history thereof. There is also in dept logical analyze of what constitutes a scientific attitude and how it differs from the myth of a scientific process.
I found the later part of the book much more interesting where examples are used to illustrate the scientific attitude in relation to actual practice, the success story of modern medicine and what is not science including fraud, pseudoscience and charlatans. There …
Bought this book from Amazon end of May 2024, and it took several months before it arrived beginning of October, even though the book was supposed to be available during this time when i checked. Apparently Amazon does not value me as a customer any more, which I suppose is fine.
The book itself sounded more interesting than what I found after reading the first four chapters. The book goes into details about what is science and what is not and the history thereof. There is also in dept logical analyze of what constitutes a scientific attitude and how it differs from the myth of a scientific process.
I found the later part of the book much more interesting where examples are used to illustrate the scientific attitude in relation to actual practice, the success story of modern medicine and what is not science including fraud, pseudoscience and charlatans. There is also a chapter with ideas how to apply a scientific attitude to the social sciences that anyone can extrapolate from for their own field of practice.
I would recommend this book to those interested in the philosophy of science. Skimming trough the first chapters can be a valid strategy if the book feels to dull.