We propose a unified framework for identifying and interrelating the main issues underlying the debate about the nature of scientific method. This is done in terms of a process model of the scientific process in which the core elements are the reality to be understood, observations, theory, action resulting from theory and the larger social system, which includes science as a component institut...

IT has been said that college teaching is the only profession for which there is no professional training, and it is commonly argued that this is because our graduate schools train scholars and scientists rather than teachers. We are more concerned with the discovery of knowledge than with its dissemination. But can we justify ourselves quite so easily? It is a bold thing to say that we know ho...

1. Background 1.1. The Approach to a Scientific Method in Clinical Medicine 1.2. How the Current Situation Developed 2. Essential methodological principles 3. Logical and methodological problems of clinical medicine science 4. Suggestions to improve medical scientific methodology 4.1. Creation of an Integrative Medical Scientific Methodology 4.2. Use of a “Recombinant” Hypothesis-Discovery Supp...

A broad theory of scientific method is sketched that has particular relevance for the behavioral sciences. This theory of method assembles a complex of specific strategies and methods that are used in the detection of empirical phenomena and the subsequent construction of explanatory theories. A characterization of the nature of phenomena is given, and the process of their detection is briefly ...

In 1971 a “missing memristor” was proposed by a circuit theorist named Leon Chua as a 4 fundamental passive circuit element defined by a non-linear relationship between electric charge and magnetic flux linkage. In 2008 a research group from Hewlett-Packard led by Stan Williams claimed credit for finding this “missing memristor” based on the observation of a zero-crossing hysteresis effect. I r...

Scientific publications contain many references to method terminologies used during scientific experiments. New terms are constantly created within the research community, especially in the biomedical domain where thousands of papers are published each week. In this study we report our attempt to automatically extract such method terminologies from scientific research papers, using rule-based a...

During the last 30 years sociologists Barney Glaser and Anselm Strauss have formulated and developed in great detail their grounded theory perspective on social science research. In their work they have consistently argued for the inductive discovery of theory grounded in systematically analyzed data. Their inductive perspective has stemmed in part from their dissatisfaction with the prevalent ...