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Perspectives on Scientific Argumentation
2012Foreword, Deanna Kuhn.- PART I: Theoretical Premises of the Study of Argumentation.- Chapter 1 Introduction, Jonathan Osborne, Anna MacPherson, Alexis Patterson, Evan Szu.- Chapter 2 The Two Faces of Scientific Argumentation: Applications to Global Climate Change, E. Michael Nussbaum, Gale M. Sinatra, Marissa C.
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The Roles of Evidence in Scientific Argument
AIP Conference Proceedings, 2008Over the past decades, education researchers have shifted their understanding of science from “a rhetoric of conclusions”—that is, a fixed canon of content—to a social process of knowledge construction. While much of the research has investigated individual learners as they engage with scientific ideas, experiments, and methods, increasingly ...
Leslie J. Atkins +3 more
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The Logic of Scientific Argument
1987Science and deductive logic are not equivalent. In this chapter the logical basis of science is presented. A general feature of all deductively valid arguments is that the conclusion contains no more information than that which is given in the premises. The conclusion simply restates the information in the premises.
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Key Arguments for Scientific Realism
2020In this chapter, I present in canonical (or standard) form and then evaluate key arguments for scientific realism (or against antirealism about science). The first argument is the most influential Positive Argument for scientific realism, most commonly known as the “no miracles” argument, which purports to show that scientific realism is the best ...
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The Stases in Scientific and Literary Argument
Written Communication, 1988This article explores the usefulness of identifying the stasis of an argument, that is, whether it concerns an issue of fact, definition, cause, value, or action. The stasis of an argument can be seen as a component that has to be justified. An author must either assume or overtly appeal to the value of addressing a particular audience on a topic in a ...
JEANNE FAHNESTOCK, MARIE SECOR
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Transcendental Arguments in Scientific Reasoning
Erkenntnis, 2018Although there is increasing interest in philosophy of science in transcendental reasoning, there is hardly any discussion about transcendental arguments. Since this might be related to the dominant understanding of transcendental arguments as a tool to defeat epistemological skepticism, and since the power of transcendental arguments to achieve this ...
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Scientific Realism and the No Miracles Argument
2019The No Miracles Argument (NMA) is perhaps the most prominent argument in the debate about scientific realism. It contends that the truth of our best scientific theories is the only hypothesis that does not make the astonishing predictive and explanatory success of science a mystery.
Jan Sprenger, Stephan Hartmann
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Transformations in Scientific Arguments
2021Tamra Stambaugh, Eric Fecht, Kevin Finn
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An Inconvenient Truth: the scientific argument
GeoJournal, 2007The movie An Inconvenient Truth is a powerful portrayal of global warming and its impacts. The main scientific argument presented in the movie is for the most part consistent with the weight of scientific evidence, but with some of the main points needing updating, correction, or qualification.
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EXAMINATION OF STUDENTS' INVOLVEMENT WITH SCIENTIFIC ARGUMENTATION
2012The purposes of this study were to examine students' involvement with scientific argumentation and to find out how their participation changed as they spent more time in arguing. Case study design with qualitative methods was guided to the research. The participants of the study were 13 senior pre-service physics teachers, four of whom were females ...
Hakyolu, Hanife, Bekiroğlu, Feral
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