Contents:

1. Pillars of Science: Reasons, Knowledge, and Truth
2. Evidence, Observation, and Measurement –
3. Uses of Evidence –
4. Evidence, Rationality, and Disagreement –
5. The Nature of Probability –
6. Do Not Be Misled: Confounds and Controls –
7. Physical Experiments and Their Design –
8. Experimental Methods That They Don't Teach –
9. Models: Useful Lies and Informative Fictions –
10. Causation and Causal Inference –
11. Strange Causation - Time Travel and Remote Action –
12. But Is Any of It Real? –
13. Explanation and Understanding –
14. Fundamental Theories and the Organization of Science -- Scientific Progress.

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