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    The scientific method : an evolution of thinking from Darwin to Dewey / Henry M. Cowles.
    by Cowles, Henry M., 1985- author.
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    Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2020.
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  • Science -- Methodology -- History.
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  • Science -- Philosophy -- History.
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  • Evolution (Biology)
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    9780674976191 (hardcover)
    0674976193 (hardcover)
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    372 pages ; 25 cm
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    Age of methods -- Hypothesis unbound -- Nature's method -- Mental evolution -- A living science -- Animal intelligence -- Laboratory school -- A method only.
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    "The idea of a single scientific method, shared across specialties and teachable to ten-year-olds, is just over a hundred years old. For centuries prior, science had meant a kind of knowledge, made from facts gathered through direct observation or deduced from first principles. But during the nineteenth century, science came to mean something else: a way of thinking. The Scientific Method tells the story of how this approach took hold in laboratories, the field, and eventually classrooms, where science was once taught as a natural process. Henry M. Cowles reveals the intertwined histories of evolution and experiment, from Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection to John Dewey's vision for science education. Darwin portrayed nature as akin to a man of science, experimenting through evolution, while his followers turned his theory onto the mind itself. Psychologists reimagined the scientific method as a problem-solving adaptation, a basic feature of cognition that had helped humans prosper. This was how Dewey and other educators taught science at the turn of the twentieth century-but their organic account was not to last. Soon, the scientific method was reimagined as a means of controlling nature, not a product of it. By shedding its roots in evolutionary theory, the scientific method came to seem far less natural, but far more powerful. This book reveals the origin of a fundamental modern concept. Once seen as a natural adaptation, the method soon became a symbol of science's power over nature, a power that, until recently, has rarely been called into question"--
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