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(2018) Successful science and engineering teaching, Dordrecht, Springer.
The invention of inertia requires an examination of what would be needed to have the Earth to rotate around its axis and a ball fall straight down beside the high tower. Such a notion requires a high order of critical thinking, hardly the abilities found in most students entering an introductory course.Duhem's viewpoint is that a single hypothesis by itself whether induced by observation or postulated by a guess is not really science. The essential difference between science and pseudoscience and nonscience is that a scientific theory should provide coherent, consistent, and wide-ranging theoretical organizations.Kalman (Sci Educ 11:83–94, 2002; Sci Educ 19(2):147–163, 2010) discusses how very important it is that students become aware of how science works so that they can undergo conceptual change and confront their personal (alternative) scientific conceptions.Studying philosophy of science helps students to develop a coherent view of science. This is partly because it helps students develop their critical thinking skills.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-66140-7_7
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Kalman, C. S. (2018). Critical thinking, in Successful science and engineering teaching, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 111-141.
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