Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; A Note to the Reader and Lecturer; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Science and Pseudoscience; Chapter 3: Arguments; Chapter 4: Discovering Knowledge; Chapter 5: Scientific Description and Explanation; Chapter 6: Models, Hypotheses, Theories, and Laws; Chapter 7: The Scientific Method; Chapter 8: Chance, Probability, and Sampling; Chapter 9: Describing and Measuring Events; Chapter 10: Types of Research; Chapter 11: The Scientific Clinician; Chapter 12: Efficacy of Interventions
Chapter 13: A Clinician's Guide: Evaluating the EvaluationsChapter 14: The Art and Science of Intervention; Index
Summary
An introduction to the history and philosophy of science, scientific methods, and fundamental concepts underlying scientific thinking and reasoning. It provides many illustrative examples from speech and language pathology to help students and practitioners contextualise these ideas
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-243) and index
