Methodological Prospects for Scientific Research

This bookhighlights the existence of a diversity of methods in science, ingeneral, in groups of sciences (natural, social or the artificial), and in individual sciences. This methodological variety is open to a number ofconsequences, such as the differences in the research according tolevels of reality (micro, meso and macro), which leads to multi-scalemodelling and to questioning "fundamental" parts in the sciences, understood as the necessary support for the whole discipline. In addition, this volume acknowledges the needto assess the efficacy of procedures and methods of scientific activity inengendering high quality results in research made; the relevance ofcontextual factors for methodology of science; the existence of aplurality of stratagems when doing research in empirical sciences(natural, social and of the artificial); and the need for an ethicalcomponent while developing scientific methods, because values shouldhave a role in scientific research. The book is of interest to a broadaudience of philosophers, academics in various fields, graduate students and research centers interested in methodology of science.