Styles of Thinking in Science and Technology: Hosted by the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Cooperation with the Austrian Academy Federal Ministry of Science and Research

In 1994, the late Alistair Crombie published his monumental work 'Styles of Scientific Thinking in the European Tradition'. As it reads in the publisher's prospectus, he distinguished between six styles of inquiry, demonstration and explanation diversified by their subject—matters, by their general conceptions of nature, and by scientific experience. These inquiry styles included postulation, experimental argument, hypothetical modelling, taxonomy, probabilistic and statistical analysis, an...