3. What Is a Scientific Fact?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. 1. Science, Morals, and Philosophy 1
5. 2. How and Why Does Science Develop? 7
6. 3. What Is a Scientific Fact? 43
7. 4. What Does Scientific Argumentation Look Like? 91
8. 5. Knowing How and Knowing That 155
9. 6. The Clinical Medical Paradigm 173
10. 7. Placebo and Nocebo Phenomena 211
11. 8. Pluralism and Medical Science 245
12. 9. Medicine and Ethics 267
13. 10. Medical Research Ethics 345
14. 11. Taxonomy, Partonomy, and Ontology 401
15. Index of Names 464
16. Index of Subjects 468
17. Picture Acknowledgements 475